My Top 10 Most Liberal Big Government Presidents Of All Time

Now when I am referring to the term liberal, I am not necessarily talking about the "classic liberal" which is really the definition of today's Libertarian or social conservative. That being the right to be a free human being and have no interference from government. The Republican Party was founded on those principles and helped end slavery in America. Now this same party that once stood for personal and economic freedom has become just as much a pain in my ass as the Democrats are. That being said, I have devised a comprehensive list of the most "Big Government Commander's In Chief" for you to see how I compare to your thoughts and views on what makes us even want to elect someone like this in the first place. My guess is insecurity issues. We are all afraid to be on our own. We are afraid to take responsibility of our own failures. What we don't understand is that without failure, you will never learn what it truly means to succeed. We have a natural instinct to survive and we do not need the government's help for that. We need to learn to gain victory for ourselves through our own terms. Putting this list together made me realize that most of these President's were not necessarily bad people. They loved this country and did what they thought was best for it. Socialism is always introduced with the best intentions. However, it will always have the most horrible repercussions. Especially in a free society. This country was founded on individual freedom, and with that comes a HUGE responsibility. When we elect individuals to make our decisions for us, we do it with the understanding that they have the best intentions in mind. A month ago I did a piece on my most conservative Presidents of all time, so I thought I would show the other side of that coin. So here we go... 10. Richard Nixon. So I start my list of with a Republican? WTF? Nixon ended the war in Vietnam and ended the draft. For that I commend him. Everything after that is a bunch of big government nonsense. For starters, his trade deal with China. After that American workers were completely screwed. So he raised the minimum wage and then put limits on pricing of goods like gasoline. The stock market nearly crashed. Nixon's policies dampened inflation through 1972, although their aftereffects contributed to inflation during his second term and into the Ford administration. After Nixon won re-election, inflation was returning. He reimposed price controls in June 1973. The price controls became unpopular with the public and business-people, who saw powerful labor unions as preferable to the price board bureaucracy. The controls produced food shortages, as meat disappeared from grocery stores and farmers drowned chickens rather than sell them at a loss. 9. John F. Kennedy. JFK was a war hero, and prevented WW III. The Cuban missile crisis was his greatest accomplishment. That and his stand on civil rights gives him an A+ from me. His administration also did away with school prayer, changing it to "a moment of silence" and was the pre-courser to the moral breakdown in America that we see today. Coming from the one and only Roman Catholic President this was very disappointing. He was also in favor of open borders and raised taxes to help fund Welfare. 8. Andrew Johnson. Big Government moron who should have never been in public office. Racist. 7. Bill Clinton. Raised taxes on businesses, and the working class. Pushed for government healthcare. His domestic policy stunk. Tried like hell for more gun control. His foreign policy was horrible ie Somolia. 6. Jimmy Carter. Created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. This was the beginning of the end of the coal industry and Public Education in America. It also raised inflation even more when OPEC raised the price of crude oil even more. He originated the shutdown of oil refineries in the U.S. He did make it legal for home-brewers to buy hops and yeast which had not been possible since 1921, so that was cool. His foreign policy was very diplomatic and he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for that. However, the Iran hostage crisis was a disaster. 5. Lyndon B. Johnson. His ambitious legislative agenda created the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Created the "Great Society" which raised taxes and instituted more government bureaucracy. I give him props for his crusade for Civil Rights. 4. Barrack Obama. Obamacare. Need I say more? Ok then I will. He hated the free market and was a champion for complete government control of our lives. Oh ya and let us not forget Benghazi! I almost put this clown at number one. It was a tough decision. 3. Woodrow Wilson. It's funny because most would argue that my top five were also the greatest Presidents of all time. (funny as in crazy!) Wilson created the income tax and the Federal Reserve. Before Wilson, everything that needed to be built was done by corporations and private donations. The Sedition Act of 1918 was pretty much a violation of the 1st Amendment. He did lead us to victory eventually in WWI. (Of course I have a strong belief that war, which was one of the bloodiest known to man, could have easily been prevented!) 2. Teddy Roosevelt. I know what you're thinking, " Don, Teddy Roosevelt was a war hero AND a Republican!" and while those statements are true, he also took great strides to push the progressive movement in America. He hated big business so much, he was known as the "trust buster". He believed that most businesses were corrupt so he left the Republican Party and created the progressive Bull Moose Party which went after corporations with an iron fist. He championed more government, but in doing that, he created the National Parks that we have today. His foreign policy led to the building of the Panama Canal and the occupation and reconstruction of the Philippines. 1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Teddy's cousin, would shoulder us through the Great Depression and World War II. His "New Deal" created the welfare program and Social Security. Originally meant to be temporary and optional, it was as all social programs that are instituted, eventually made permanent and mandatory. In his 15 years as President he created 9 government agencies. He was so hard core about not giving up his station so much that he was elected four times. Term limits apparently did not go well with his agenda. Obviously these men did do great things for this country. Some of which I agree with, and most of which led to mess that we have to put up wit today. So to conclude with my post, I would like to quote some famous leaders who kind of went the other way than these that I have mentioned. "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money." -- Margaret Thatcher. The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin. We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand. Thanks for reading!

God, Guns, Guts, and Glory (The Beginning Of The End Of The Old Republic)

As we prepare for Easter weekend 2018, I find myself remembering what that meant to me and my community as a young boy. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16). I find myself wondering in today's world just who actually believes in that phrase now. It's a different America today then it was when I was a kid. America is degenerating on a moral level quite rapidly in fact, and I fear that this will be the key factor in whether or not we will continue as a free republic. According to a new Gallup poll, 82 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of Democrats say that moral values in the U.S.A. are only fair or downright poor. 40 years ago, only 33 percent of Americans felt that way. So what's happened? First, secular forces have destroyed any rendering of Judeo-Christian philosophy in the public school system. Many teachers are now ordered not to make value judgments on behavior and not to push any specific moral standards. Thus children receive little if any moral guidance in class. Second, with the rise of single parent homes, more and more American kids wind up unsupervised for long periods of time, left to the television set or the computer, where harmful material comes at them like rain in a thunderstorm. Third, major corporations now traffic in sex and violence to an extent never before seen in this country. Americans spend more than $10 billion a year on porn every year. And violent video games gross billions more for corporations. Fourth, peer pressure to actually reject immoral behavior is virtually non-existent in many places. The code of silence about bad behavior is an infectious disease among Americans. So as it stands, both Republicans and Democrats realize America is lacking a strong moral compass. Millions of American parents are trying hard to teach their children good values, but are besieged by the terrible influences beyond the home. The secularists have succeeded in drastically changing the moral tone in this country. And 80 percent of us see that change as a bad thing. However, there's no mass outcry about it. And until there is, America will continue its declining moral direction. Within this lack of belief that consequences and repercussions should determine your actions, lies the criminal element. The murderous element. The Stoneman Douglas students experienced a horrific trauma. No one can deny their grief or blame them for being impassioned. And allowance has to be made for the fact that they are teenagers, who universally believe that they know better than their hapless elders ( David Hogg says the problem is that their parents don’t know how to use a democracy). Maybe all of this can be written off as the work of overenthusiastic, underinformed 17-year-olds. But the student activists aren’t acting alone. They are promoted and praised by adults who should know better. To witness or experience tragedy is a terrible thing, and it is no easy thing for anyone to make sense of, and so from Job on through the stoics to the victims and heroes of the day before yesterday, the mystery of ineffable tragedy has been most often met by solemn silence. PTSD does not instill wisdom. But that doesn’t really matter to the cynical media, who cut back and forth between Stormy Daniels and the earnest pontifications of adolescents. A little perspective is in order. Time reports that since 2013, six adults and 35 children have been killed in school shootings in the U.S. While this is a tragedy, there are an average of 51 deaths by lightning strikes each year in the U.S. The likelihood that you will be killed by a lightning strike is six times greater than the likelihood that you will be killed in a school shooting. Inanimate objects to not commit mass murder...people do. Just as it was a responsible gun owner who knew right from wrong (good from evil) who saved the day in the Maryland shooting. Now there is another mindset poisoning our youth, and that is the lack of belief in American exceptionalism. American pride. "And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I wont forget the men who died who gave that right to me..." To me that's one of the greatest songs ever written. Sure, other nations love their homelands, but U.S. pride has historically been on a whole different level. For decades, the “Land of the Free” has been tied to American exceptionalism—the belief that the country is the indisputable greatest nation of all time. Yet, while we still sing the words before every sporting game, that distinctive pride is waning. For some, a decreasing belief in American exceptionalism is just a sign that the nation is taking its natural place among countries. Others feel that the loss of this belief is a clear symptom of an impending U.S. downfall—and they want desperately for the “Home of the Brave” to retake its leading place on the world stage. Either way, something definitely has happened to the nation’s pride. And every American should take note. Take note, and take action. Before it's too late. Thanks for reading!

The Top 10 Major Irish Contributions To The World

As I recover from yet another epic St. Patrick's Day fest, I tend to ponder on just what it means to be Irish. There are an estimated 14 million people in the U.S. alone who claim this heritage. The total world wide is over 80 million. So just what is it about having Irish blood that makes us so proud? The truth is since the first Celtic settlements on the emerald isle over 3000 years ago, the Irish have been changing and shaping our world like no other race. With that never quit attitude, and the stubbornness to see any hardship through to its end. They gave birth to modern music and dancing and Hurling is considered one of the oldest team sports in the world. Here is a look at my top 10 major Irish contributions to the U.S. and the world. 10. Milk chocolate: In the 18th century Sir Hans Sloane, from County Down, encountered cocoa while he was in Jamaica, where the locals drank it mixed with water, and he is reported to have found it nauseating. However, he devised a means of mixing it with milk to make it more pleasant. When he returned to England, he brought his chocolate recipe back with him. By the 19th century, Cadburys was selling tins of Sloane's drinking chocolate. 9. Guinness: Enough said. 8. Splitting the atom: Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, a physicist from Dungarvan, Co Waterford, won the Nobel Prize for his work with John Cockcroft. In the late 1920s/early 1930s, the two conducted "atom-smashing" experiments at Cambridge University. Walton became the first person to artificially split the atom. 7. Nickel Zinc battery: The battery was developed by an Irish chemist, Dr. James J. Drumm (1897–1974) and installed in four two-car railway sets, between 1932 and 1948, for use on the Dublin-Bray railway line. Today it is used to power cell phones. 6. Monorail: Louis Brennan, from Mayo, was the inventor of the monorail. He did much of the work on a monorail locomotive which was kept upright by a gyrostat. In 1903 he patented a system that he designed for military use; he successfully demonstrated the system, on November 10, 1909, in Gillingham, England. 5. Color photography: John Joly, from County Down, was the first to invent the color photograph back in 1894, although it did not gain widespread acceptance until many years later. 4. The Tank: When Winston Churchill, in 1915, issued an all points bulletin for the invention of a machine capable of withstanding rifle fire, flattening barbed wire fences, and rolling over no man’s land Irishman Walter Gordon Wilson obliged by inventing the modern tank. 3. Tractor: Harry Ferguson, from Northern Ireland, a bicycle repair man with a genius for mechanical inventions, invented the modern tractor as well as the first four wheel drive Formula One racing car. 2. Submarine: John Philip Holland, from Clare, invented the submarine and it was commissioned in 1900 by the US Navy. 1. Automobile: Henry Ford, son of an Irish immigrant, transformed the world with his low price automobile which created modern life, suburbs, highways, mobility etc, forever. Irish immigrants also built this nation. From railroads to skyscrapers to ships, you name it, and it was probably built by an Irishman. James Hoban from County Killkenny, designed the White House. Irish immigrants also made up more than 80% of the soldiers and sailors during the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. There is a joke that the Irish would have ruled the world had alcohol not been created. I almost believe that. By the way, it's also considered the sexiest accent in the world! I hope everyone had a great St. Paddy's Day and thanks for reading!