Which President do you think did more for the poor than any other?

[Anarchist420]

If Andy Jackson hadn't signed into law the Tariff of 1833, then I'd say Jackson, but since Jackson was even willing to defend it with military force against poor South Carolinians, I'd say... Martin Van Buren, since he tried to establish an Independent Treasury System, supported hard money, and supported low tariffs. He wasn't for corporate welfare.

As for Jefferson, he was the most intellectually dishonest President ever.

FDR wound up making almost everyone poor with everything he did other than Glass Stegall, TJR was really a corporatist disguised as a progressive, Harding was okay towards the poor, but not on Van Buren's level. Clinton signed the DMCA and NAFTA into law, Bush bailed out the big banks, Reagan and Carter were corporatists. LBJ was a corporatist.

Grover Cleveland failed to repeal the NBA or couple his gold standard with a 100% reserve mandate, and he cartelized the railroad industry. Other than that though, he was kind of paleo-populist.

I'd have to say Johnson 17 comes the closest to Marty Van Buren since he battled the corporatists in the Neo-Republican Party.

 

[fskimospy]

Stop posting.

 

[halik]

Clinton? TANF was a great piece of public policy.

 

[Steeplerot]

Bringing electricity and water, bridges, roads, to the dirt poor around the country, protecting their bank accounts from the elites greed. Yeah that FDR made us so poor, these beautiful bridges built in the depression..this so-called Golden Gate and Bay Bridge and that horrible aqueduct for some of the freshest drinking water in the USA really bring me down. Damn that FDR! If it wasn't for him building all this infrastructure it wouldn't be falling apart in 2010!

 

[hal2kilo]

If Andy Jackson hadn't signed into law the Tariff of 1833, then I'd say Jackson, but since Jackson was even willing to defend it with military force against poor South Carolinians, I'd say... Martin Van Buren, since he tried to establish an Independent Treasury System, supported hard money, and supported low tariffs. He wasn't for corporate welfare.

As for Jefferson, he was the most intellectually dishonest President ever.

FDR wound up making almost everyone poor with everything he did other than Glass Stegall, TJR was really a corporatist disguised as a progressive, Harding was okay towards the poor, but not on Van Buren's level. Clinton signed the DMCA and NAFTA into law, Bush bailed out the big banks, Reagan and Carter were corporatists. LBJ was a corporatist.

Grover Cleveland failed to repeal the NBA or couple his gold standard with a 100% reserve mandate, and he cartelized the railroad industry. Other than that though, he was kind of paleo-populist.

I'd have to say Johnson 17 comes the closest to Marty Van Buren since he battled the corporatists in the Neo-Republican Party.

FDR, but I see that you already made up your mind or what ever it is that your spew comes from.

 

[Craig234]

FDR and LBJ.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Agreed, FDR and LBJ. Hard for me to rank the 2 against each other though for a lot of reasons.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

LBJ. He helped create a system where generations of poor people could get free money for having babies.

 

[XZeroII]

What does the DMCA have to do with the poor?

 

[colonel]

FDR and LBJ.

same here...

 

[matt0611]

George W. Bush

 

[Anarchist420]

What does the DMCA have to do with the poor?

It punishes poor people who try to get digital media for free. It was the Hollywood Establishment Enforcement Act.

 

[Genx87]

Black share croppers loved FDR and the TVA.

 

[Turin39789]

Sarah Palin or Rand Paul

 

[Cogman]

It punishes poor people who try to get digital media for free. It was the Hollywood Establishment Enforcement Act.

The DMCA has almost nothing to do with the distribution of digital media. It has everything to do with the circumvention of protection methods (and boat hulls).

 

[MovingTarget]

FDR and LBJ most definitely. We need another FDR-like figure in the white house again. The voice of the little guy's interest has been almost completely drowned out.

 

[techs]

George Bush Jr.
He must love the poor. He made so many more new ones.

 

[Ozoned]

Lincoln.

 

[CPA]

OP, hint, it's not the President nor government's job to help the poor.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Andrew Jackson, without Jacksonian Democrats expanding suffrage to the poor, the likes of FDR and LBJ would never have been elected.

 

[techs]

OP, hint, it's not the President nor government's job to help the poor.

It is the Presidents job to keep our country safe. And a flourishing middle class and class mobility is the number reason America has flourished for the last 70 years.

 

[MovingTarget]

OP, hint, it's not the President nor government's job to help the poor.

Correct, everyone has an obligation to help the least among us. It is EVERYONE's job, whether they are the president or not.

 

[Fear No Evil]

Bush did spend a ton of money on AIDS in Africa.. don't get much poorer than those folks.

 

[matt0611]

Correct, everyone has an obligation to help the least among us. It is EVERYONE's job, whether they are the president or not.

A moral obligation perhaps.

 

[thebomb]

OP, hint, it's not the President nor government's job to help the poor.

It is the government's job to help the poor. It does so in order to promote the General Welfare of the United States as per the constitution.