April 23rd

On this day, April 23, in the year 1791, Future President James Buchanan was born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. Buchanan, who was the son of wealthy immigrants, became a lawyer and entered politics. He is remembered today for corruption and his support of slavery. His efforts to maintain the status quo of the rich by attempting to prevent both the Congress and the Supreme Court from outlawing slavery, creating an expansionist foreign policy, mishandling an economic depression, and passivity toward corruption and threat of secession show him to have been inept and completely out of touch with the great majority of Americans. History has a great tendency to repeat itself… If you don’t want a country where the policies and laws are shaped to benefit the wealthy, where the rich are the only ones whose voices are heard, a plutocracy where those who are considered middle-class or poor are viewed simply as fuel for the machine who bear the burden of paying the bulk of taxes and doing the bulk of the work… THEN STOP electing the rich to office!