4th of july 1832

[BarryDonegan]

Andrew Jackson was presented with a chance to reauthorize the Bank of the United States Charter.

which he vetoed.

He then balanced the budget.

[Uriel999]

AJ08!!!! If you disagree he will shoot you!!!

[BarryDonegan]

if you took the genocidal component out of Andrew Jackson, and replaced it instead with a Navy Seal... he might look a lot like JESSE VENTURA.

remember that Andrew Jackson wasn't exactly one of the braniacs on the nerd patrol, but it takes a guy with texas sized cajones and a real intimidating presence to take down the bankers.

[Truth Warrior]

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president."


Quote by: Franklin D. Roosevelt (http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/franklin+d.+roosevelt) (1882-1945), 32nd US President
Date: November 21, 1933
Source: in a letter written to Colonel E. Mandell House

[raiha]

yeah pity about the nose count. (Off the corpses of dead native Americans)

[Truth Warrior]

yeah pity about the nose count. (Off the corpses of dead native Americans) How about FDR's "body count"? ;)

[werdd]

id love to see andrew jackson beat the shit out of bernanke with his cane.

[Conza88]

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president."


Quote by: Franklin D. Roosevelt (http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/franklin+d.+roosevelt) (1882-1945), 32nd US President
Date: November 21, 1933
Source: in a letter written to Colonel E. Mandell House

Roosevelt? WTF! :eek: At least he knew he was scum.

[Truth Warrior]

Roosevelt? WTF! :eek: At least he knew he was scum. Yep, that's probably why he was only elected POTUS four times. ;) :D

[Aratus]

curiously enough, the house votes against the bailout bill, the market dips, then the house votes for the new bailout bill after the senate does, and then the market now dips. what does this tell us? lets not lionize or demonize either andy jackson or monsieur biddle on the B.U.S question, we should insted see this as being like 1832, or 1932 if not 1907! is warren buffet our current-hour j.p morgan as Citi tries to steal wachovia? buffet's billions mayhap just propped somebody up. {can we say wells fargo?} each new day has a bank with runs on the same, sadly clinging to the ropes... --- its 12:40 and the DOW just went below 9,800 --- it has dipped 525 pts... today...

[Swmorgan77]

if you took the genocidal component out of Andrew Jackson, and replaced it instead with a Navy Seal... he might look a lot like JESSE VENTURA.

remember that Andrew Jackson wasn't exactly one of the braniacs on the nerd patrol, but it takes a guy with texas sized cajones and a real intimidating presence to take down the bankers.

YOU read his veto statement on the 2nd bank's charter and tell me he's not a brainiac. The man was freaking brilliant. You're buying TOO MUCH of the historical line about him without question.

BTW, this is the exact scenario we're in right now. The 2nd bank openly threatened, and then acted on the threat to cause a crash if the 2nd bank's charter was not renewed, and Jackson held fast despite pressure from the terrified Congress. The result was the bank became even more brash and their chairman said things that were so blatant and obvious threates to manipulate that it swayed the Congress in favor of Jackson.

Jackson was not only a brilliant military commander, motivator and strategist but he was also a trained and certified attorney and wrote an eloquent Constitutional opinion in his veto message that would be easily applied to our current crisis.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/veto/ajveto01.htm

[Swmorgan77]

id love to see andrew jackson beat the shit out of bernanke with his cane.

Too bad we can't clone him and bring him back. He makes Chuck Norris look like a panzy.

[BarryDonegan]

in the context of the rhetorical skill and writing eloquence of that time, when there was no reality tv and most people couldn't read, he is no thomas jefferson.

haha.

obviously he was a lawyer and judge, but Jackson was famous for a very simplified soundbite style rhetoric.