Which US President has had the easiest term?
I doubt easy can be applied but if we go with the entire American history instead of recent presidents, I would say Monroe, the 5th president. He was the last of the founding fathers to be president. The reason I say it was easiest is he had everything going well. The country was on an upward path when he started, he had no extreme or major issues or other situations and unlike most politicians, he recognized everything was going well enough, there is no reason to fool around with it. There have not been many presidents who can actually step back from their own hubris and desires to make a mark or have a legacy and actually just let things ride along, when there is no reason to change anything. During his time, the Federalist party disbanded leaving the Democratic-Republican party(back then this was the same party) and while there was certainly divisiveness it was also called the "Era of Good Feelings" which was really more of Americans just wanting to get along after the Napoleonic Wars which was one of the reasons there was a war of 1812 with Britian. He did have some problems, such as the Panic of 1819, basically the first recession which was caused by the transition from old world european economy to Capitalist and the capitalism ended it. He had typical issues with native americans, generally not sticking to agreements as the british, french and americans usually did with native americans and this is when the Missouri compromise issues happened. After the napoleonic wars ended, spain and portugal lost most of their new world colonies, promiting monroe to inspire what is called the Monroe Doctrine. But really in the end, he had a pretty easy presidency.
Do you think the Government has too much or too little control over the economy?
The government has too much control. 1. The Treasury collects income taxes, double dipping estate taxes,double dipping capital gains taxes, and business taxes. By double dipping i mean the government taxed earnings which was pre taxed. People create their estate on INCOME they made already. They invest with INCOME they made already. 2. The Federal Reserve has a monopoly over the value of our savings in dollars. It errodes our savings through inflation. If there was a gold standard, that wouldn't happen. They also set interest rates instead of markets setting interest rates. 3. Government bureaucracies. The EPA is eviscerating our coal industry through regulations they made up. The EPA was democratically created to arbitrarily make undemocratic regulations. Homeland Security is regulating security at airports instead of private business. Fannie and Freddie made loans to people who couldn't pay them back and contributed to the recession.
Why did roosevelt immediately established the new deal?
It was a power grab so he could concentrate more power from the state governments into the federal government, and Hoover laid the foundation for most of FDR's big government interventionist policies that were an utter disaster. Check out the book "New Deal or Raw Deal" Here's a couple links on the misinformation and myths of the great depression and about Hoover and FDR. http://mises.org/rothbard/agd/chapter7.a... http://www.gmu.edu/depts/economics/wew/a...
What is so important about Rutherford B. Hayes?
heres a bio or mini bio Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States (1877–1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction. Hayes, an attorney in Ohio, became city solicitor of Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861. When the Civil War began he left a fledgling political career to join the Union Army as an officer. Hayes was wounded five times, most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain; he earned a reputation for bravery in combat and was promoted to the rank of major general. After the war, he served in the U.S. Congress from 1865 to 1867 as a Republican. Hayes left Congress to run for Governor of Ohio and was elected to two consecutive terms, from 1868 to 1872, and then to a third term, from 1876 to 1877. In 1876, Hayes was elected president in one of the most contentious and confused elections in national history. He lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden but he won an intensely disputed electoral college vote after a Congressional commission awarded him twenty contested electoral votes. The result was the Compromise of 1877, in which the Democrats acquiesced to Hayes's election and Hayes ended all federal army intervention in Southern politics. That caused the collapse of Republican state governments and led to a solidly Democratic South. Hayes believed in meritocratic government, equal treatment without regard to race, and improvement through education. He ordered federal troops to quell the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. He implemented modest civil service reforms that laid the groundwork for further reform in the 1880s and 1890s. He vetoed the Bland-Allison Act that would have put silver money into circulation and raised prices, insisting that maintenance of the gold standard was essential to economic recovery. His policy toward Western Indians anticipated the assimilationist program of the Dawes Act of 1887. Hayes kept his pledge not to run for re-election, retired to his home in Ohio and became an advocate of social and educational reform. His biographer Ari Hoogenboom says his greatest achievement was to restore popular faith in the presidency and to reverse the deterioration of executive power that had set in after Lincoln's death.I hope this helped