Article About Calvin
Coolidge and Obama
On November 5, 2013 the Lakeland
Times published an edited version of the article (unedited version below) which
I wrote as an outcome of my recent studies in history and politics. I believe
that President Coolidge deserves his rightful place on that Mt. Rushmore
monument to our great presidents.
Coincidentally this National Memorial project was promoted and started in 1927 during President Coolidge's presidency. (The more you learn about Calvin Coolidge, the striking contrast between him and our current president is obvious.)
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Calvin Coolidge, Antithesis
of Obama
As Obama and his hoards of
blind sycophants and zero information voters proceed in methodically destroying
our once great country, small glimmers of hope are evident when we review our
presidential history. Besides the obvious list (Washington,
Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln,
etc.) we inevitably come to realize that our 30th President, Calvin Coolidge
belongs in that list of great presidents. The recently published biography,
“Coolidge” by Amity Shlaes provides extensive evidence in support of that
assertion. His biography shows that Calvin Coolidge was a complete antithesis
of Obama:
As a student at Amherst College, Calvin Coolidge was
significantly influenced by a remarkable professor of philosophy, Charles
Edward Garman. Garman’s influence firmed up the Coolidge set of basic ideas of
public service, private property, frugality, strict work ethic, and religious
morality. In his autobiography, Coolidge describes how Garman encapsulated his
world view:
“In ethics he taught us that
there is a standard of righteousness, that might does not make right, that the
end does not justify the means . . . people are entitled to the rewards of
their industry. What they earn is theirs, no matter how small or great .
. . emphasis was placed on the necessity and dignity of work . . .
All kinds of work . . . are alike honorable.”
[Obama’s greatest influences
were his mentors, Saul Alinsky (evil community organizer), Bill Ayers (domestic
terrorist), Frank Marshall Davis (communist), and of course his puppet-master,
George Soros (evil financier and destroyer of nation’s economies.)]
As Coolidge completed his
studies at Amherst
he was encouraged to write an essay on “The Principles Fought for in the
American Revolution” for entry into a national essay contest. In 1895 Coolidge
won the 1st Place
Gold Medal for his essay. He concluded that essay with the following:
“It is our theory that
the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.”
Observers noticed Coolidge’s
ability to hear people out; later he was called an “eloquent listener.” His
taciturnity was legendary. In his living room in Northampton hung a simple plaque. It read:
A wise old owl lived in an
oak
The more he saw the less he
spoke
The less he spoke the more
he heard.
Why can’t we all be like
that wise old bird?
Coolidge consistently
expressed what he discerned in fewer words, better chosen words, than just
about anyone before or since. He said:
“He who gives license to his
tongue only discloses the content of his own mind,” and “By the excess of words
he proclaims his lack of discipline.”
[Obama’s inability to listen
combined with his incessant mendacious teleprompter campaigning turns the
stomach of any intelligent human unfortunate enough to be in his presence.]
Coolidge possessed a
coherent philosophy of government and was praised as “the most internally
consistent and single-minded of modern American presidents.”
[Obama’s utterances exhibit
an unbridled level of incoherency and inconsistency.]
Regarding the breaking of
the policeman’s strike in 1919, Massachusetts Governor Coolidge felt certain
that progressives could not be met. Conciliation would not work. There was no
middle ground. He said:
“There is no right to strike
against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”
[Obama’s symbiotic
relationship with unions (both private and government sector) provides the
perfect environment for expanded union influence and uninhibited corruption.]
When President Harding died
in 1923, Coolidge became President “a job for which his whole life had prepared
him.”
As he became President he
said:
“We come here to honor the
past, and in doing so render more secure the present.”
Calvin Coolidge was the last
Jeffersonian who believed strongly in the limits of government power, particularly
the limits of federal power. He believed that the property of a nation belonged
to the citizens of that nation.
Coolidge believed that
raising taxes was wrong because it robbed from men money that was their
property; lower rates were good because they encouraged enterprise and starved
the big government “beast.”
[Obama’s five year big
government policy assault on the freedoms of America’s citizenry proves his
antithetical political philosophy to that of Coolidge.]
In the matter of
legislating, Coolidge said:
“It is much more important
to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
[Obama concentrates only on
passing massive, incomprehensible bad bills such as the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (shovel ready stimulus), Affordable Care Act
(ObamaCare), and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act.]
By the end of WWI in 1919
the economy struggled with high war debt and President Wilson’s administration
increased the upper tax rate on the rich to an incredible rate of 77%.
Economists were dismayed that these high marginal tax rates on the rich didn’t
yield the revenue increases desired. President Coolidge accomplished the
lowering of this rate to 25% by 1926 with the result of turning budget deficits
into surpluses for four consecutive years of his presidency and simultaneously
shifting the overall tax burden away from the poor and middle class workers.
(While increasing the revenue from the highest tax bracket from $77 million to
$230 million, the tax burden on those making under $10,000 fell from $130
million to under $20 million.)
Coolidge’s economic policies
reduced the national debt by 24% and the federal budget by 35%. Unemployment
averaged 3.3% and GNP averaged an annual growth of 7% during his presidency.
[In comparison, Obama’s
economic policies relative to tax burdens, national debt, GNP growth, and true
unemployment can only be termed abject failures. Yet he continues to babble
that nonsense that taxing the rich is the solution to all of our economic
problems.]
Coolidge’s sense of
frugality, independence, and integrity also controlled the manner in which he
conducted his own personal life. Earlier he and his family lived in a
$27-per-month rented house in Northampton
and after becoming President, the Coolidges moved their own personal furniture
into the White House. He even paid the salary of the White House cook out of
his personal Presidential income.
[Obama’s contrasting
spendthrift lifestyle with his extravagant million dollar family vacations, and
multi-million dollar trumped up boondoggles to all parts of the world couldn’t
be more antithetical to that of Calvin Coolidge. Obama’s total lack of fiscal
responsibility is epitomized by his recent use of a $68 million hybrid
aircraft, the MV-22 Osprey to provide his dog, Bo with a separate flight to
join the Presidential family vacation.]
Finally the Coolidge
Presidency was enhanced by the presence of his beautiful, elegant, and
intelligent First Lady, Grace whose first name aptly describes the nature of her
contribution to the 30th Presidency. In college she studied piano, voice, and
elocution and during the years of WWI she tirelessly worked for the American
Red Cross. Additionally she dedicated herself to the teaching of the hearing
impaired at the Clarke Institute for the Deaf.
[The Obama Presidency was
elevated to a higher level of racial hatred and corruption by his
philosophically compliant First Lady, Michelle who spent her Princeton college
days actively working with socialists, communists and other radicals who only
want to destroy the United
States. Her racial animosity towards
Caucasians was clearly exposed in her written words and participation in the
“minorities only” radical campus group, The THIRD WORLD CENTER. While Obama was
a Senator, Michelle was installed in a ludicrous position as 'Vice President of
Community Relations' at the University Of Chicago Hospital at a salary of
$316,962 per year. Since there were no actual duties associated with that
job, the position was quietly eliminated when Michelle moved on.]
In summary, the term
“antithesis” could not be more appropriate in comparing Obama to Calvin
Coolidge and our other great presidents in the past. It is indeed hard to
imagine what we would have to install in the White House to dislodge Obama from
his earned title of America’s
“WORST PRESIDENT.”
Chuck Boyd
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