[cripplecreek]

Why we need another Coolidge presidency. The man had that common sense brilliance that America lacks today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw

[justiceseeker93]

I had seen that Coolidge speech on taxes and government expenditures before. (Imagine what hell old Cal would catch from the MSM today for reading the speech from notes in his hand!)

Coolidge was an outstanding president on economic matters, what in the Reagan years would come to be called a "supply sider." The individual most responsible the tax cutting and government frugality policies in the Coolidge years was Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. The results were the biggest economic boom in American history as of that time.

Amity Schlaes has proven to be an excellent writer on American history, critiquing events from a modern day conservative/libertarian perspective. I was impressed with her politically incorrect history of Roosevelt's New Deal, titled (perhaps facetiously) "The Common Man," and look forward to reading her "Coolidge."