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What recession? Reno was booming during the Carter years. The recession hit in '82. That would be Reagan, not Carter.
What recession? LOL, the recession in which Nixon was the first president to use "socialist price and wage controls" and the recession in which president ford urged americans to wear a button tiltled "WIN" for whip inflation now.
LOL
Republicans destroyed the 70's economy
reagan/bush sr. quadrupled our debt in 12 years
bush doubled our debt and destroyed our economy
One example... Iran was holding our people hostage for over 400 days and he didn't have the cajones to do anything about it. As Reagan was being sworn in, they released the hostages, because they KNEW that Reagan would go after them.
I was too young to have followed his presidency at all (I was 9 when Reagan was sworn in), but I remember the Iran hostage crisis and how Carter did virtually nothing to end it.
Google JIMMY CARTER FAILURE and you'll get a lot of stuff to peruse...
apparently you were too young to recall the covert operation that ended in failure on the Iran desert. In fact he did take action and lost Archibald Cox as his Sec of State over the decision.
Carter was probably the only honest president we have had. I'd go outon the limb and say we won't ever hear of him cheating on his wife in office or out.
I would argue that he was a bad president as I don't accept that POV. He had inflation, gas more than doubled... as a result of Nixon and Kissinger developing OPEC so they could afford our weapons. He diidn't fly around in Air Force one when things got tough, nor did he sit idle when the country was under attack reading books to tots. We have had some far worse presidents.
regan took gas out of the inflation index... but we still had horrible inflation. carter didn't play the politics game well. He didn't make the backroom dirty deals to get things done. I would take that type of president over the ones that line the pockets of their supporters any day.
Guns and butter that Volcker had to fix with 20% interest rates so as to purge the rottenness from the system.
Carter was a convenient scapegoat.
Exactly! Everyone always get's it messed up in their head, it all comes down to jobs and money. Nobody cares about wars and other countries.
All the reckless spending during the Vietnam war caused massive inflation that accumulated to astronomical levels during the late 70s. Serious stagflation could only be cured with high interest rates, which started late in Carters presidency.
It wasn't until a few years in with Reagan that the high interest rates got inflation under control. What morons don't understand is that once it got under control, Volcker dropped the rates (like a Keynesian) setting us up for the rescission during Bush's presidency. Hence Bush's loss of the 2nd term.
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Jimmy Carter was an officer on a nuclear sub. He had no degree in anything akin to nuclear physics, but his son does. Jimmy was a peanut farmer, his family's business.
He is a nice man but he is weak. He struggled under a terrible recession and very high interest rates under his administration. Iran toyed with him. He was basically ineffective. The tyrants of the world like him, which speaks volumes to those who can read between the lines. Trying to negotiate with a terrorist is like trying to negotiate with a rapist.
It was Reagan selling weapons to the tyrants and GWB negotiating with the terror sponsoring Libyan government yet it's Carter who's the bad guy?
Someone please enlighten me.. I wasn't even thought of when Jimmy Carter was president, but people on here consistently compare Obama to him in a negative way..
Someone please enlighten me.. I wasn't even thought of when Jimmy Carter was president, but people on here consistently compare Obama to him in a negative way..
I'll argue that if we had followed more of Carter's leadership, a lot less American soldiers would be dead in Iraq, the twin towers would not have been blown up, among other things. I bet our cars would have gotten a lot better gas mileage.
Carter wanted us to get along in the world as another country. Reagan acted like America was the only country.
Reagan also drove the debt skyward. Much like Obama is now. Carter didn't.
He got a lot of things wrong, I won't argue that. But if we had followed the path he was trying to lay out, instead of the one Reagan laid out before us, I think we'd be better off as a population, and as a nation. Healthier, less debt ridden, and more energy independent.
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What recession? LOL, the recession in which Nixon was the first president to use "socialist price and wage controls" and the recession in which president ford urged americans to wear a button tiltled "WIN" for whip inflation now.
LOL
Republicans destroyed the 70's economy
reagan/bush sr. quadrupled our debt in 12 years
bush doubled our debt and destroyed our economy
thanks guys
During Reagan's two terms, the Democrat-controlled Congress spent, on average, 2.8% more than Reagan asked for and a cumulative 24.5%. Every balanced budget proposal Reagan presented was declared DOA by Tip O'Neil.
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