Deja Vu All Over Again...

From Amazon.com:

"Imagine a country in which strikes by public-sector unions occupied the public square; where foreign policy wandered aimlessly as America disentangled itself from wars abroad and a potential civil war on its southern border; where racial and ethnic groups jostled for political influence; where a war on illicit substances led to violence in its cities; where technology was dramatically changing how mankind communicated and moved about - and where the educated harbored increasing contempt for the philosophic underpinnings of our republic.

That country, the America of the 1920s, looked a lot like America today.  One would think, then, that the President who successfully navigated these challenges, Calvin Coolidge, might be esteemed today.  Instead, Coolidge's record is little known, the result of efforts by both the left and the right to distort his legacy."

                                   

I have learned that anything by Charles Johnson is worth reading.  I haven't read this book yet, I gave it as a gift.  If you ask the average American, okay forget the average American - they don't know who Coolidge was, ask American's with a college degree, okay nevermind.  My point is that to most people, Roosevelt fixed what Hoover broke, and Coolidge was the guy who let all the problems build.  The truth, America surged under Coolidge - and the 20's were roaring so loud, the people could not hear what caused it.  Coolidge (after a couple years of Harding) followed Wilson - similar in some ways to how Reagan followed Carter.  What will follow Obama?  (Truman was the Roosevelt's third Vice President - not a reaction of the voters to Roosevelt).  

Any student of history will tell you that we are doomed to repeat it. 

We are doomed to repeat it...

I was going to title this post Do Nothing, Now!  But we need some serious deregulation...