Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty

Ivan Eland , a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute has authored a book rating the the presidents according to their policies promoting (or not)  peace, posterity and liberty.  The rankings may surprise many (in particular #8), but should not. Any astute adult being alive and in full  possession of basic critical thinking skills should have arrived at the same conclusion.  Jimmy Carter was by far the most responsible POTUS the citizens of this Republic, in moderns times, ever elected . He attempted to slow this fiscal train of a government spending down in order to allow the US economy time for its debt heated, inflationary tracks to cool , but spendthrift Republicans would have none of that. The banksters that control the Republican Party wanted to keep the central banksters’ debt-fueled gravy train rolling, damn the cost to economic stability and thus the era of Wall Street Republicans “turning the bull(shit) loose” was born.

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“The second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt. In 1970 it was just 40 percent of gross domestic product, or about $425 billion. When it reaches $18 trillion, it will be 40 times greater than in 1970. This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.” – David Stockman

But, I digress. I am not seeking to create a singular debate on who was the better POTUS between Reagan or Carter, but to initiate and learn from a  general discussion on the rankings of presidents according to opinions of others on which presidents throughout the history of this Republic served the best interests of all Americans. My personal choice for # 1 would be Calvin Coolidge and at the very bottom, would be Bush #43, who gave the banksters free reign backed by the full faith and credit of the American taxpayer which set the US economy afire with no money down, easy credit resulting in what perhaps may turn out to have been the catalyst to a global economic collarless.  This debt device of financial destruction dropped by Dubya upon the global markets may turn out to be mega-tons more destructive than any misery the Anglophile Wilson could ever have visited on civilized society by dragging US kicking and screaming into the human horror story that was WWI.

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Eland asks the defining question on the topic of who was the better president in the article linked below:

“Presidents cannot take credit or be blamed for what they inherit when they take office. If they at least try to move the country in the right direction – as Jimmy Carter did when he proposed a top-to-bottom review of federal programs and government spending, known as “zero-based budgeting “– they deserve more credit than presidents who go along with things that are wrong.

Indeed, Carter, who is underrated as president, reduced government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) faster than any other modern president, began deregulation of many industries, and nominated Paul Volcker to serve as Federal Reserve chairman. He was The main architect of the “tight money” policies that helped trigger the Reagan and Clinton booms.” Ivan Eland

Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty

I have not yet read this book, but it is certainly on my (very long) must-read  list.  If you have read the book and are able to expound on the topic, please do so.