The five Unites States president most responsible for the destruction of our Country.

The five Unites States president most responsible for the destruction of our Country.

1. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States. For those of you who matriculated through our politically correct public school system you are probably under the false impression that the American civil war, beginning in 1861, began as attempt to end the repulsive practice of slavery. This is an absolute fallacy. The War Between the States began when eleven southern states exercised their rights under the constitution for self determination and dominion over their geographical boundaries. A war with the north became inevitable when Lincoln blockaded southern shipping ports and reinforced federal troops at Fort Sumter.

At the start of the civil war, slavery was losing popular support, even in the south. No one could possibly believe the shame that was slavery to have continued, to any great extent, much longer in this country yet, Lincoln ignored the tenth amendment at a cost of over 600,000 American lives and changed the relationship between the federal and state institutions forever.

2. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856—February 3, 1924), the twenty-eighth President of the United States. Where Lincoln left off absolving the rights of states, Wilson took over. Thanks to President Wilson we have the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Farm Loan Act and The Federal Reserve. He was also responsible for the first federal income tax and most importantly, the League of Nations, the forerunner of the current United Nations. He enabled the burgeoning power of unions and openly supported a socialist, populist agenda.

3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), the thirty-second President of the United States. Franklin did more to destroy the fabric and future of this country than, “arguably” any other president in history. Roosevelt’s, “new deal” caused a market correction to spread into a catastrophic depression lasting ten years. It was only the onset of war that restored the economy Roosevelt had practically destroyed. Roosevelt’s new deal gave America Social Security, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, welfare, the minimum wage and many other social programs that exist to this day. Most of Roosevelt’s initiatives were found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. His solution to the court was to try and, “pack” it in 1937 by adding six new justices loyal to him. Not even the democratic congress would abide this yet Roosevelt won out in the end when justices fearing retribution began to retire and Roosevelt ended up getting most of his new deal approved intact. Roosevelt’s dealings with Stalin at the Yalta convention of 1945 sentenced most of Eastern Europe to an existence under brutal soviet rule.

4. Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States. Johnson was responsible for designing the "Great Society" legislation that included civil rights laws, Medicare (health care for the elderly), Medicaid (health care for the poor), aid to education, and the "War on Poverty." All programs, when combined with the legacy of Roosevelt, will eventually bankrupt this country. As a wartime president LBJ was a miserable failure. He was constantly second guessing himself and reversing his previous decisions. Defense secretary McNamara once described him as a deer in the headlights.

5. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981, also known as the malaise years. During Carters presidency the American mood required a misery index to sufficiently judge the despondency of the electorate. Carter is best remembered for gasoline lines and ceding the Middle East to student terrorists. One might argue, had Carter not encouraged the Shah of Iran to allow more freedoms to the student protestors in the 70’s the problems of the Middle East today would be greatly diminished and the Iranian threat would be minimal. Conservative Springfield 17Jun08