Blog for Chapter 12
What makes a great President (not which President
has been great)…….what qualities are essential to greatness? Why?
I think what makes a great president is one that
takes care of the little people. With the way times are we need someone that is
looking out for the best for us not if we have or don’t have money. I will be
the first to say I work hard, but I am not blessed with making a lot of money,
nor do I have any. That does not make me any less important than the ones that
does. If our president would make sure we did have jobs that we would not be
laid off from or insurance that we could afford. Someone that is not afraid to
stand up to the ones that are trying to pass bills that will put the world in
more trouble cause when it comes down to it most of them in the house or senate
has money and would throw someone like me that really has nothing under the bus
rather than take the chance on helping trying to improve things for us. I do
have something to put out there after the election was over not even a week I
know several people that was laid off work and now is on unemployment. How much
longer will it be before they put a stop to unemployment? We work hard and it
makes me mad to see that no matter how hard we work we can never get ahead and
the ones that has money that is well off taking vacations, going out to eat,
buying several houses, or in other words burning their money why can’t they try
to help the ones around them. O that’s right because if you don’t have money
they don’t know you and more than likely never known of anyone like that. I am
not saying that all of them are like that because there is some that did work
hard to get where they are, but most of them now days are ones that was born in
to it and doesn’t know any different. I know I got off the subject a little bit
I am just upset with what is going on right after the election.
Other than Abraham Lincoln and George Washington,
which two Presidents have been the greatest and why?
George W. Bush, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attack he had to face trying to keep our country under control and protect us
from any other attacks. He created new cabinet level departments of homeland
security, sent some of our armed forces overseas, and done his best to keep
everyone safe. He had a tough challenge after that and even his father our 41st
president, George Bush, said, “His son faced the greatest challenge of any president
since Abraham Lincoln.”
I think that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was also a
great president. I had a couple of more I could have put, but I like Roosevelt’s
saying. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He worked hard and
endlessly to end the Great Depression and on the creation and establishment of
the New Deal. Roosevelt summarized the New Deal as a "use of
the authority of government as an organized form of self-help for all classes
and groups and sections of our country." I think that the government and
our new president should take some notes from Roosevelt and put it to some good
use for us. We are getting worst and if something isn’t done fast we will be so
bad that no one will be able to get us out of it.
Just my opinion why make people that is having a
hard time pay for something that they do need and would pay for if they have
the money , but rather pass a bill making everyone be made to pay for
insurance. I just don’t get why keep kicking us why we are down and stomping on
us so we can’t get up. Isn’t there some way of helping us get back on track
then causing more problems so more people lose their jobs and homes and
everything?
Research a President that you’re previously
unfamiliar with- list at least three things you learned. Was this President
effective? Why or why not?
The president I researched that I didn’t know much
about was Martin Van Buren. He served as president from 1837-1841. He was
Jackson’s vice president before he became our 8th president. When he
took office he already had struggles starting off with the Panic of 1837
followed by the worst depression yet faced by the young nation. When he took
office his main concern became economic troubles. He blamed the depression on
powerful moneyed interests at home and abroad, and proposed that the federal
government deposit its funds in an independent treasury, rather than in state
banks, While Van Buren and Congress argued about the merits of the independent treasury,
which Congress finally authorized in the summer of 1840, the nation's economic
troubles continued. Despite his moves that he made to try and get the economic
troubles under controlled his attempts failed. He also tried to handle foreign affairs
over the border between the United States and Canada. Van
Buren ignored calls from some Americans to respond to Canadian and British
provocations with force, working instead successfully through diplomatic
channels to calm tensions in the region. Van Buren's measured approach to the
northern border problems, however, only earned him the enmity of those who
urged a more aggressive response. Even though Van Buren did not accomplish what
he set out to do, he played key roles in the creation of both the Democratic
Party and the so-called "second party system" in which Democrats
competed with their opponents, the Whigs. In these ways, he left an indelible
mark on American politics.
Comment on Edward King, Stephanie Griffin, and
Robert Cook.
