Wednesday, April 2, 2014

To My Conservative Colleagues Who Might be Thinking that I'm a Tad too Harsh on Lincoln

Four points to consider. a) He was an absolute protectionist. b) He was a crony capitalist and thoroughly corrupt. c) He consolidated political power predominantly in Washington. And d) he was a hard-core advocate of an inflationary central bank and a huge deficit spender.
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2 comments:

  1. Les CarpenterApril 3, 2014 at 6:12 AM

    Lincoln was the ultimate in progressive statism and power consolidation.

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  2. Will "take no prisoners" HartApril 3, 2014 at 4:53 PM

    And he certainly laid the groundwork for guys like Hoover, FDR, Nixon, Bush 2, and Obama.

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