History Proves Democrats to blame: Thomas Woodrow Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. President Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms. This agenda included the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and an income tax. Although Wilson promised African Americans "fair dealing...in advancing the interests of their race in the United States", the Wilson administration implemented a policy of racial segregation for federal employees.[3] Although considered a modern liberal visionary giant as President, in terms of implementing domestic race relations, however, Wilson was "deeply racist in his thoughts and politics, and apparently was comfortable being so. In establishing the Federal Reserve,Wilson,a Democrat, initiated the First National Debt in America.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:58:16 +0000
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