Who was the worst? I did my best to pick the top 9 that I think would be the most popular answers here. If you choose "Other" then you should really do a job convincing me that your choice is worse than all of these SOBs.
Feel free to point out other grievances that I have overlooked. I'll try to add them to my list. This is by no means complete. It goes without saying that every single one of them grew the Federal government and broke the constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
Other
Feel free to point out other grievances that I have overlooked. I'll try to add them to my list. This is by no means complete. It goes without saying that every single one of them grew the Federal government and broke the constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
- Arrested/executed tens of thousands of his political opponents in the North
- Arrested congressmen, mayors, journalists
- Had a warrant to arrest the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Waged war on his political opponents in the South
- Did not obtain congressional approval for war
- Confiscated citizens guns
- Declared Martial Law
- Shut down newspapers, censored the telegraph
- Quartered soldiers in private homes
- His war killed more Americans than both World Wars
- Created the nation's first income tax and the precursor to the IRS
- Created the Federal Reserve
- Created the IRS
- Exacerbated the Great Depression
- Entered the U.S. into World War I
- Arrested an estimated 175,000 Americans for "seditious" speech
- Instituted rationing and price fixing
- Created the War Industries Board which took over the U.S. Economy in service of the State
- Created the Committee on Public Information used to lie to the American public and spread propaganda
- Supported joining the League of Nations
- Instituted the Social Security Act
- Created the "New Deal", at least 100 new bureaucratic agencies
- Created the FBI
- Created the FCC
- Created the SEC
- Signed the National Firearms Act of 1934
- Confiscated Americans' gold
- Locked up American citizens in concentration camps
- Created wage and price controls
- Created Selective Service Act
- World War II
- Sent battle tanks into Washington DC to crush the 1932 Bonus March
- War on Poverty
- Created the "Great Society" welfare program
- Vietnam War
- Used military draft
- Signed the Gun Control Act of 1968
- Watergate Scandal
- Created the EPA
- Created the DEA
- Started the Federal War on Drugs
- Created the ATF
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- High inflation and economic recession
- Military involvement in Latin America
- Created the Dept. of Energy
- Created the Dept. of Education
- Created FEMA
- Signed the Assault Weapons Ban
- Stepped up the War on Drugs
- Signed NAFTA, GATT
- Military involvement in Bosnia
- Waco TX ATF debacle
- Scandalous president
- Signed the USA PATRIOT Act used to spy on citizens without a warrant
- War on Iraq, started under sketchy pretenses
- Created the TSA
- Created the DHS
- Clampdown of the internet
- Secret watch lists
- Torture in secret prisons, Indefinite detainment of suspects
- No Child Left Behind
- Expansion of Medicare
- Bailed out failing private businesses
- Expanded all of Bush's programs
- Spent more money than Bush
- Created Obamacare
- War on Libya
- Record spending
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