The police department, The Postal Service, Student loans and grants, Bridges, Garbage collection, Public landfills, Farm subsidies, The CIA, The FBI, the polio vaccine, the EPA, Social Security, museums, public schools, the prison system, veterans healthcare, public parks, food stamps, Medicare, our court system, the G.I. Bill, Hoover dam, State and city zoos, big IRS, Medicaid, healthcare for the 911 rescue workers, disability insurance, unemployment insurance, WIC, welfare, public street lighting, FEMA, public defenders, Amtrak, the Department of Homeland Security, OSHA, the USDA, the department of energy, customs and border protection, The department of education, The Secret Service, the Department of Justice. The creation of these systems were ALL directly influenced by the ideas brought …show more content…
He created millions of jobs by doing that and he set us up to be able to transport goods and materials across the country easily allowing us to grow into one of the most powerful countries in the world. Teddy Roosevelt saw that there was too much power concentrated in banks, Insurance companies, Oil companies and railroads. He saw that they were controlling the price of everything moving around in the country and they were killing our small business in the process. So he decided to create the antitrust laws that allowed us to break up railroads in oil companies and banks into smaller competitors of one another. It is because of Teddy Roosevelt that we were able to break up AT&T years after his death. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. I could stop there but no. On May 15, 1862, Abraham Lincoln established the independent Department of Agriculture. It was to be headed by a Commissioner without Cabinet status and Lincoln called it the ‘people’s department’. To date the USDA remains responsible for developing and executing federal government policy on farming, agriculture, forestry, and