>>Okay. I get that Jackson was not around during the past 100 years when the government grew larger under the democrat rule. But LS is saying that he was for big government. So I lumped him in with Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter as one of the people responsible for the size of government today.
In the early 1800’s, “big government” meant monarchy and AJ wasn’t in favor of that. Furthermore, he destroyed the federal bank, which was about the only aspect of modern “big government” the US had at the time.
Lincoln started “big government” when he took the sovereignity from the states by force. After the war, Reconstruction cemented the principles in place for the big government takeover of the United States. By the time of Wilson and FDR, Americans were accustomed to a massive federal government that “does stuff for them”, especially when it is done at someone else’s expense.
Sure, a CSA win in the Civil War would have been bad, but the endgame that is taking place today will have us all as slaves.
>Sure, a CSA win in the Civil War would have been bad, but the endgame that is taking place today will have us all as slaves.
There are ways to avoid the endgame; but they involve reading and some balls.
Here’s one way, enacted by a state (NM in my example) against the federal government’s elite*: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698298/posts
And here’s one against the state’s elite* using federal law: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2711585/posts
* - By “elite” I mean those who think that the law does not apply to them, or view their own power/authority to be superior of their Constitution(s), thinking that they are above and beyond it... i.e. the entire mentality of the 111th Congress and the bailouts.