No rant/ no slant is the motto of Minnesota Public Radio, meaning it tries to bring all view points to a question or issue, but in a civil manner. However, today someone slipped in on National Public Radio with a bit of rant. The topic pertained to the federal budget deficit. ( I'm so old I can remember that when that last President Bush left office there was a deficit. It didn't just start about 2 years ago!)
Any way the person calling into the program went on and on about what Andrew Jackson said during the Civil War about not borrowing money. Andrew Jackson died in 1845, so I'm quite sure that he didn't make any statements about the federal budget during the Civil War.
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Hmmm...
I guess the caller was confused on his dates. However Andrew Jackson was against debt. In fact, by 1834 he had actually managed to pay off the national debt!
Jackson said, "Free from public debt, at peace with the world...the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens."
Alas, I'm afraid we shall never see those days again!
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