Whiskas - Today's history lesson - You are wrong on Lincoln & amp; Taft
Taft after serving as President went on to become the Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court. At 72 years old, he died of old age - not at the hand of an assassin.
John Wilkes Booth's murder of Lincoln had zilch to do with taxes.
Booth and his co-conspirators hatched a plan to kill Lincoln, VP Johnson, and Secretary of State Seward to help the Confederacy. Although Lee had already surrendered to the North, Booth and his crew refused to accept that the war was over.
They went ahead with their sick scheme and guaranteed that wounds of the Civil War never healed - even up to today among a lot of Southerners - many of whom resent the fact that Obama is President and the US has a black family living in the White House.
Sidney - while your at it.
Assuming your definition of socialism will encompass the US, please enlighten us at to exactly when the country went socialist.
You case will be credible if you give a few examples of Presidents who led the nation astray, what major policies they imposed on an unwilling population that you consider socialist, whether and how they got away with subverting the laws and their political affiliation.
Just a few examples will do. However, if you single out Obama you will not be credible, as there is precedent for virtually every initiative he has pursued since he entered the White House.
I doubt you will claim- even under Obama - that it is a completely socialist country, so maybe you can rank it on a scale of 1 to 10.
The readers here seem to be interested in learning from the rigor of your thought processes. And at least I will give you the benefit of the doubt and not assume you are one off those boring people, who just throw out silly slogans with nothing to back them up.
Global Private Investment Country by Country
Professor Sidney and all interested students:
As you try to put the spotlight on where that evil socialism is stunting investment, destroying any hope of economic growth, putting handcuffs of individual financial freedom and threatening life as we know it, here is a link to a study that will give you some facts.
These "facts" are a bit better documented, than what has been offered to date by Sid, Jackson and company.
The timely and comprehensive study was prepared by the highly respected Economist Intelligence Unit together with the Columbia University Program on International Investment.
Here's the link:
[url]http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/pubs/documents/WorldInvestmentProspectsto2011.pdf[/url]
I have little doubt you will find it illuminating.
Now start your engines, do your homework, read, absorb and adjust your thinking accordingly.
And if you are so inspired, feel free to issue an apology to Obama!