On Friday’s show, Glenn Beck drew many parallels between our current presidency and when Calvin Coolidge took office. One major difference, however: Coolidge prevented a depression early in his presidency. Why was this president (nicknamed Silent Cal) from the tiny town of Plymouth Notch, Vermont so successful?
Silence Cal
First Beck claims that progressives want to silence Calvin Coolidge’s achievements. They don’t want you to know about Coolidge’s “conservative, limited government policies” because they worked. Beck says, “The left is doing their best to hide that fact.” According to Beck, progressives would rather impose their entitlement ideology on America even though that has historically failed.
Beck interviewed historian and author David Pietrusza who wrote Silent Cal’s Almanack and 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents. Pietrusza claims that all politicians promise the following, but are unable to deliver:
• Cut taxes
• Reduce waste in government
• Cut the debt
• Bring prosperity
• Jobs for everyone
• No inflation
The big difference is that Calvin Coolidge actually achieved all of the above. By lowering taxes and allowing the free market to work, Coolidge achieved great economic prosperity, giving rise to the Roaring Twenties.
All that jazz
Coolidge learned business-friendly attitudes from his father, who was a tax collector. Coolidge accompanied his father on his rounds and he discovered first-hand, how hard folks worked to earn the money that they had to pay in taxes. Coolidge’s economic policies worked. Business was booming. Coolidge believed that “The chief business of America is business.” Not bailouts.
Actions speak louder than words
Beck says we need to listen to Silent Cal.
What do you think: Does lowering taxes help only the rich or does it create jobs for the middle class and poor?
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