What was the biggest screw-up in American history?

[asinann]

The 16nth amendment.

You're just pissed off because you don't want to pay taxes.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

to Hunde Des Krieg: I don't know. Bashing the U.S. is just more entertaining I guess.

I guess it's probably just easier.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Whos perfect?

Any way, Id have to say wanting to be the world police and protectors of democracy

 

[brtshstel]

and all the GOP candidate saying Reagan was the best republican( Abe Lincoln's got him beat by far)

Agreed. Reagan was not a good president, period. His foreign policy meant bolstering the US Navy with expensive newer versions of aircraft, ships, and more aircraft carriers. Now, I like military hardware, I really do. But at the same time, I don't agree with jacking up the defense budget during a fucking RECESSION. Reganomics lowered taxes for anybody making more than a million dollars a year, while reducing revenue and raising taxes for the working man. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 reduced tax deductions almost completely for people who needed them. All he did was feed the already rich while shitting on the poor.

Now that I think of it, he sounds a lot like George W. Bush, just without an actual war. It makes sense, though. He tried to be like his daddy, his daddy was vice president to Regan, whom which modeled his presidency after Reagan.

Abe Lincoln was a better president by far. Eisenhower was a good republican as well.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

The Western Expansion. Period. If you say otherwise, you are wrong. I can't think of any other American action that killed more innocent people for a more worthless reason (greed).

Bush is NOTHING compared to the Western Expansion. Nothing, I tell you!

 

[Jumplion]

Breaking away from the British empire of course

Together we could have ruled the galaxy as father and son...

Hear hear!

America... I am your father!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Is Canada Princess Leia then? ;

 

[Sewblon]

The 16nth amendment.

You're just pissed off because you don't want to pay taxes.

I don't pay taxes, I don't have a job.

 

[Sewblon]

The 16nth amendment.

And what would that be?

The one that allows the federal government to levy income taxes.

 

[WingedFortress]

Vietnam.

 

[WingedFortress]

Breaking away from the British empire of course

Together we could have ruled the galaxy as father and son...

Hear hear!

America... I am your father!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Is Canada Princess Leia then? ;

No, we're Anakin Skywalkers ghost, after Vader dies in the Death star and everything.

*NOT* the Hayden Christensen one though. The original.

 

[GyroCaptain]

That whole purchasing Alaska thing. Andy Seward was SUCH A FOOL. Between that and the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, what retards we have in office, eh?

[/satire]

 

[Doomwaffle]

ELECTING A SOCIALIST PRESIDENT

 

[BlackPhoenix0928]

Breaking away from the British empire of course

This.

Also renouncing the 'U' which I have never understood. Why America? What did it do to deserve to be shunned.

Well I can tell that you are British and haven't studied the reasons for our seperation. The British Parliament was, at that point, corrupt and was not representing the colonies fairly.

I would say that our biggest screw up was getting off the gold standard. Now we have thousands of countries ready to kill us for their money.

 

[101194]

Institution of the Federal Reserve and the World Bank.

Hands down.

I concur
On the dollar bill instead of 'In God We Trust' it should say 'Enslaved By Debt'

Yes Zeitgeist Anyone?

 

[TheTygerfire]

Electing _______ president

Doesn't matter, all of them screwed up somehow and they all will.