Bryan Sant wrote:
The furthest I could go is how Wikipedia states that it is a,
"quasi-public (government entity with private components) banking
system". Quasi-public indeed.
ok. And that's exactly what it is a government entity. No argument here.
He organized the Democratic-Republican party and they always referred to
themselves as Republicans. Now it is true that modern democrats like to
Really? Gee, right here it states that, "The Democratic Party traces
its origins to the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas
Jefferson..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)
The modern democratic party traces it's origins to Thomas Jefferson, but
I already said that.....
look back at him an Jackson as their party founders(this is kind of hard on
me as I consider my self a democrat and they are two of my least favorite
presidents.
That's because modern day Democrats have abandoned their original
liberal (as in liberty) origins and are now the "Progressive" party of
American Socialism. If you subscribe to today's Democratic views,
then of course you wouldn't agree with the liberal views of Jefferson
(or really any of our founders).
It depends on which policies we are discussing. We are discussing
monetary policy. I agree with Hamilton there should be a strong central
bank. He also supported the federal government backing specialized
economic pursuits, which I also agree with. However the federalist
tended to mix religion and government and I don't agree with that so much.
Very few of the founding fathers were as libertarian as many people like
to believe. There were those that thought the federal government should
do more(Adams, Hamiliton, arguably even Washington), and there are those
who thought it should do less(Jefferson, at least before he was
president :)). But it was mostly an argument about federal power. Most
of them did not argue against local government power.
Kyle
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