Why is Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill? He was a lousy president!?
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I don't know why any face is on money or the mountains for that reason!
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Why he was re-elected is beyond me.  NOLA will get what it paid for.\n\nI am going to be criticized as being insensitive, but here's my $0.02 anyway.\n\nHow dumb are you if you are waiting for the government to tell you to leave the area when there is a class 5 hurricane heading straight for your town that happens to be below sea level???  And how can you be surprised that a house built directly on the beach on stilts to prevent flooding gets destroyed in a bad storm.\n\nI blame the liberals for creating a "victims mentality" in this country.  No one is ever responsible for their actions, "They never told me to leave, its Bush's fault for not telling me to leave."  \n\nSermon over.  Sorry.  Had to vent it, feeling better now.
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ok bush defenders...he cut the budget that would pay to upkeep and fix the levies.  And since when does the president have no authority in a national disastor? I suppose he shouldnt have done anything during 911 either, oh wait...he didnt do anything except read a book to little kids for a PR stunt. But anyway, of course it wasnt his fault.  I mean the city of new orleans should have been able to pay for the extremly expensive repairs and maintenace needed to protect millions of U.S. citizens without any help from the feds.  I guess we should send nevada and las vegas the bill for the hoover damn now.  get your heads out of your bums,  take responsibility for your misguided republican vote, and accept morality and rational thought into your lives.
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HE IS a lame duck and has no meaning whatsoever.  The law has to be changed so when there is a shift in power the pres. should be changed also so we can get some good work done.
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On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law. Jackson's proclamation was written in response to an ordinance issued by a South Carolina convention that declared that the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 "are unauthorized by the constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State." Led by John C. Calhoun, Jackson's vice president at the time, the nullifiers felt that the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 favored Northern-manufacturing interests at the expense of Southern farmers. After Jackson issued his proclamation, Congress passed the Force Act that authorized the use of military force against any state that resisted the tariff acts. In 1833, Henry Clay helped broker a compromise bill with Calhoun that slowly lowered tariffs over the next decade. The Compromise Tariff of 1833 was eventually accepted by South Carolina and ended the nullification crisis.\n\n\nFrom other source\n\nSouth Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, November 24, 1832.\nAn ordinance to nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities.\nWhereas the Congress of the United States by various acts, purporting to be acts laying duties and imposts on foreign imports, but in reality intended for the protection of domestic manufactures and the giving of bounties to classes and individuals engaged in particular employments, at the expense and to the injury and oppression of other classes and individuals, and by wholly exempting from taxation certain foreign commodities, such as are not produced or manufactured in the United States, to afford a pretext for imposing higher and excessive duties on articles similar to those intended to be protected, bath exceeded its just powers under the constitution, which confers on it no authority to afford such protection, and bath violated the true meaning and intent of the constitution, which provides for equality in imposing the burdens of taxation upon the several States and portions of the confederacy: And whereas the said Congress, exceeding its just power to impose taxes and collect revenue for the purpose of effecting and accomplishing the specific objects and purposes which the constitution of the United States authorizes it to effect and accomplish, hath raised and collected unnecessary revenue for objects unauthorized by the constitution. \n\nWe, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and effect within the United States, and, more especially, an act entitled "An act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight and also an act entitled "An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, are unauthorized by the constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens; and all promises, contracts, and obligations, made or entered into, or to be made or entered into, with purpose to secure the duties imposed by said acts, and all judicial proceedings which shall be hereafter had in affirmance thereof, are and shall be held utterly null and void. \n\nAnd it is further ordained, that it shall not be lawful for any of the constituted authorities, whether of this State or of the
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PeacellsComming was kind of right...\n\nLincoln was considered a great president because he was able to end the Civil War and bring the country back together after it split apart.\n\nUp until Lincoln, U.S. money didn't have ANYBODY's picture on it. We were still a young country, and after our revolution, we didn't want to do things the way our old Mother Country did, England, where they had the King's picture on all the money.\n\nBut Lincoln was so special, we changed that, just for him. There's a history of the Lincoln Penny on the U.S. Treasury Dept.'s website. There's also a Treasury site on coins that could help you. They're below.
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I believe it was Andrew Jackson.
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Why not? The Kennedys made a real attempt to do it. Joe Jr. (who died in WWII) was the son that was supposed to go into politics and the presidency (thanks to daddy joe's pockets). Instead, Jack was chosen. After Jack finished, the plan was for Robert to run and then possibly Teddy...who is an alcoholic murderer but the people of MA appear to have been stupid enough to keep sending him back to Congress might have been stupid enough to get him to president.\n\nEver looked at your history book? John Adams, John Quincy Adams, the Roosevelts. And how would you feel about Hillary as she is in the same family as Bill? Is it okay for her to be president even though he was, but not for the Bushes to do it?\n\nGot a legitimate reason for disliking the Bush family? or you just hate them for no real reason?
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Mickey was rude to you. Ignore him.  Yes, woohoo and hiphip hooray, it is true..house and senate and governor..here I got all my issue as I voted too and we got minimum wage raised after gathering about 1/2 million signatures.  $1.70 more for the poor families and people in our state..so gratifying.  There [probably will be a recount wit this much at stake..if they spent billions on attack ads, they won't flinch to recount it even though they upped the price ten tiems to make it harder for people to do them..but maybe ithin a certain perfcentage it is free..not sure.\n\nDon't know about Rummy..but this is a good week for our side...May they be brave and do some real change--I wish they'd reverse that 50 billion they took from social programs and reinstate that 70 Billion for tax cuts to the rich..I prefer giving to the masses more than the few..and we'd still save 20 billion..
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He was president when the great depression started, I remember my dad talking about it and said he was at least partally to blame by his fiscal policys. Hey Bush take a lesson here supply side economics does not work, never has never will.
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He ruined my trip to Greece by starting a war in Iraq, which should have been in Afghanistan, but he got distracted and went after the same guy his daddy was fighting against when he was in office.  He decided we needed the oil more than we needed revenge.  Now our gas prices have shot through the roof several times, his popularity has gone WAY down, he's embarrassed us several times by the stupid things he's said.  Sure, he's human...but you can only screw up so much without using the excuse that you DID snort lines of coke in college, passing because your daddy paid people off...I mean, WHO in the 1970's got a drunk driving ticket???  There are so many things that I would love to elaborate on, but it's so obvious that he needs to get impeached!  No one wants to take a stand because of all this Homeland Security crap...if you do take a stand, then you're obviously working for the Taliban or something and you'll get scooped into an unmarked van, never to be seen again.  For crying out loud...our President is the laughingstock of the WORLD!  The state of the world today is disgraceful!\n\nSIMPLY PUT: I hate the President.  Why on earth people voted for him is beyond me...he's not supposed to be entertaining.  He's supposed to be intelligent and able to run the country correctly.  I hope that we get someone in office that's worth a crap in the next election, otherwise, I'm moving to Canada, England, Greece, Australia, or Scotland.  Screw the chaos...I'd move to Switzerland, but thre are too many that are trying to get in as it is.
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Why?  For the same reason the President passess a bill making it much more difficult for Americans to file bankruptcy while, at the same time, takes this country into the worst debt it has ever seen.  It's about power, not what might be right, wrong, or consistant.
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No, because he is an evil, selfish, money mongering blow hard, bastard, jackass, dick-head, son-of-a-b*tch MoFo from hell. Why did he get elected, well, crap, why did he elected twice!?!?!?! Are people in America stupid? I am American, I am not stupid. this is so annoying.
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Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory, was a very successful president.  Having been a General in the War of 1812 and lead the American Force's to Victory in the Battle Of New Orleans, he was already a national hero.  Things were going to be done his way or they were not going to be done at all.  As President, Jackson vetoed more legislation than any other president and often changed members of his cabinent as well as other advisors when they were in dispute to his policies.  As President he probably used his control of the Executive Branch of our Government in a stronger manner than those before him and certainly many that came after him.  He was the 8th President of the United States and served from 1833 to 1841.
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Go back to the consumer driven economics of the Clinton era. It seemed to work a lot better then the supply side economics of the Bush term in office. How on earth he can say that the economy is strong is beyond me. Just another Repuglican lie from the most corrupt leader in the world.
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Andrew Jackson. \n\nOur president was illiterate, and when having to sign on a bill, he would have to have someone approve it in writing for him. \n\nOne day, the person hired to do it was unavailable, and when he signed the document he wrote "OLL KORRECT" which is how he though all correct was spelled, and ever since OK has been adapted as an all correct statement.
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I think what you are saying is essentially true. However there have been 6 presidents since Nixon that could have helped or fixed the problem and nothing got done. Nixons move to allow the dollar to float has caused many problems with the economy. I do not remember his reasoning behind it but it was another bad decision by an repuglican.