Paved with Good Intentions

Andrew Jackson has long been known as the 'people's president.'  He was dedicated to helping the common man instead of the rich, but the fact remains that many of his choices made while in office and during his campaign were not good ones.
During Jackson's campaign, he offered government positions to people in exchange for their support.  He fired over nine hundred officials to make room for the new ones, claiming that he was rooting out corruption in the government.  It soon became evident, however, that this was not his true goal.  Jackson appointed Samuel Swartwout, a man with criminal tendencies, to a very important financial position against all logic, and he became a laughingstock when Swartwout made off with $1,222,705.09 (the biggest theft the country had ever seen).  Jackson's appointment of government officials based on political support instead of competency negatively affected the country for years to come.
Jackson also supported Indian removal, which ended up causing the Trail of Tears.  He violated all of the treaties previously made between the United States and Indian nations.  In his message to Congress December 7, 1829, Jackson claimed that he thought it would be a calamity if Native American nations were to be overtaken by white people, and 'suggested' that they should move voluntarily to a territory set aside west of the Mississippi.  For all of his claims that it would be cruel to force the Indians to move from their land, he essentially forced them to move when he declared that any of the Native Americans who remained within the boundaries of the states would be subject to the United States' laws and taxes. 
Andrew Jackson believed that the Second Bank of America was an unconstitutional institution, and that it solely served the rich.  He thought that too much power lay in the hands of the rich men who controlled the bank, and that they could potentially influence the political process because they held so much money (because he didn't influence the political process through bribery, definitely).  Jackson tore down the bank, resulting in massive inflation.  He intended to make life easier for the 'common man,' but Jackson ended up making the worst financial decisions of any president - and that's saying something. 
While Andrew Jackson claimed to be all about helping the common man, his actions prioritised a very select portion of the US' population.  While his act of dissolving the Second Bank was well-intentioned, it ended up making life much more difficult for the group of people that he intended to help.  He hated Native Americans, and while he claimed to be protecting them, to the Indians, he became the equivalent of Hitler.  His use of the spoils system showed that Jackson was more concerned about gaining power than making good decisions for the country.  Many of his decisions can be summarised this way, putting his own image before the actual good of the people and the country.

Sources
Bank War:
Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto Message to Congress, July 10, 1832, http://www.edline.net/files/_6YGyF_/ab0fb7a998a0f4f83745a49013852ec4/BankWar1.jpg
yhshistory, Jackson Bank Wars, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0pc7eH41vY&feature=youtu.be
Indian Removal:
The History Channel, Andrew Jackson - Trail of Tears, http://www.schooltube.com/video/10ab73bc9f1d4dc89014/AndrewJackson-TrailofTears/
Spoils System:
Robert V Remini, The Life of Andrew Jackson, 1988, http://www.edline.net/files/_6YG4b_/0cdf3b8baade74333745a49013852ec4/SpoilsSystem2.jpg