Hell yes. Thanks Kaslin. One-time ping to Larry.
Posted on 05/15/2016 2:47:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
“Immigrants. We get the job done...”
From “the world has turned upside down” from The Hamilton musical
Hell yes. Thanks Kaslin. One-time ping to Larry.
I have no love for Hamilton. He’s the reason the big banks own this country now. Too bad Aaron Burr didn’t get him earlier.
He served as an artillery officer and subsequently on the Staff of General Washington. Like the other senior military and political officers of the new country, he risked possible hanging if captured.
Alexander Hamilton lead an assault on a British redoubt at Yorktown.
He resisted the call for a military takeover of the hapless non-government under the Articles of Confederation.
He was a delegate to the Annapolis convention of 1786 and largely responsible for the federal convention the next year.
On June 18th of the convention he launched a strategic assault on the minds of deadlocked delegates. His all day speech in support of a parliamentary system as an alternative to the Randolph and Paterson Plans shocked his fellow delegates into making the decision to dump the Articles of Confederation and design a new plan of government.
As the motive force behind The Federalist, he defended the Constitution, primarily against NY Governor George Clinton, whose state stood to lose lucrative impost revenue.
As Treasury Secretary he steered the nation from the brink of ruin to a sound financial basis.
It is fair to say that absent the efforts of Alexander Hamilton, the Confederation United States would have soon dissolved with nothing to replace it.
Hamilton's curse was that he betrayed the American Revolution. His main political and economical ideas were a combination of dictatorial monarchy, centralized power, imperialism, and economic mercantilism. These were the defining characteristics of the British Empire that the American revolutionaries had waged war against.
It may be in the musical but without Hamilton at Treasury (a one man band for most of his time there under Washington) the country might not have made it through its infancy. He had to have been one of, if not the brightest of those amazing Founders.
Agree. The nation is blessed that Alexander Hamilton was there from the start
Amen! Complete POS!
Well put. Exactly right.
Those founding fathers were all protectionists, especially Washington. A lot of RINO Cheap Labor Express Free Traitors™ will try to tell you differently.
I don’t now a lot about Hamilton but I will say that we can say the rebellion hung by a thread many times and could have failed dozens of times but for divine intervention.
The John Adams story is one that I know well and one could say that it would have failed without him...or Jefferson....or Paul Revere or Samuel Adams..or the swamp fox in South Carolina. Franklin and Adams secured the support of France. That would not have happened if Franklin wasn’t a rock star in France, and without French support, we would have been destroyed by Britian.
I agree to an extent that Washington and Hamilton were the driving force of constitutional America, but Jefferson pretty much single-handed lay gave us our fundamental land ownership and distribution laws before then and it was his idea to ensure all new settlers in the territories could become equal states and thereby preserved the Uinion at the outset from splitters.
Hamilton did such a fantastic job with the Treasury that even after Jefferson, as president, sent Albert Gallatin to find where Hamilton screwed up, he found “no flaws” or corruptions and called Hamilton’s Treasury “perfect.” Gallatin wrote, upon delivering his report, “I think Mr. Jefferson was disappointed.”
Hamilton set up the system that got JEFFERSON out of debt, and if we used it today we would have no debt (a “sinking fund”). Hamilton honorably insisted that ALL debts be paid for the good if the nation’s reputation.
Oh, and your banks? Madison himself wrote an amendment to the constitution that was removed permitting banks and general incorporation laws.p so he agreed with Hamilton.
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“the Confederation United States would have soon dissolved with nothing to replace it. “
Not entirely a bad thing in my mind.
L
So, no Burrsylvania? Thanks LS.
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But, ultimately, it does not matter whether Hamilton was a good guy or not. We cannot go back, and we have the system we have, corrupt as it is.
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