Posted on 05/02/2012 9:42:57 AM PDT by Son House
You don't see much of President Carter these days. At 86, he keeps a rather low profile. But he does believe Barack Obama will win re-election next year, even though he seems to understand that Mr. Obama is in deep trouble. In fact, Carter believes the president is facing the same dilemma he did:
JIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Sen. Ted Kennedy had decided to run against me, and some of the more liberal Democrats didn't want to see me have successes. So I experienced a little bit of what President Obama experiences every day; that is an almost total reluctance on the part of any Republican in the House or Senate to give him any support that would bring credit to his administration. So he has a difficult, almost insurmountable problem in dealing with the Congress.
...Americans feel insecure. They are worried. Their financial condition is not good. They know they are dependent upon their employers, and they also know that losing their jobs could lead to disaster....
Franklin Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Well, with all due respect to FDR, that's no longer the case. Americans have a legitimate fear that government is simply out of control, spending the nation into bankruptcy and failing to fix economic problems. That fear is real, and it's a present danger.
...This is not a partisan analysis. When President Obama took office, I knew he was an income redistribution guy. In fact, I challenged him on that in our first interview during the 2008 campaign. But once elected I decided to give the president a chance to see if his economic vision, big government management of the economy, could turn things around. Well, we all know things have gotten worse, not better.
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This is not a partisan analysis. When President Obama took office, I knew he was an income redistribution guy. In fact, I challenged him on that in our first interview during the 2008 campaign. But once elected I decided to give the president a chance to see if his economic vision, big government management of the economy, could turn things around.
My instinct tells me O'Reilly is soon going to talk economics as if he is Mr Know-It-All, just wanted anyone watching O'Reilly tonight to remember how gullible he was to fall for the Democrat's Economic Plan. And Bill brags of having a great research team...to bad he didn't use it.
Carter is not sane....probably never has been.
a) Cannot create jobs, it can only spend wealth, briefly, that the private market creates.
b) No government can spend its way out of a depression. Or print its way out.
What's left to debate?
” a) Cannot create jobs, it can only spend wealth, briefly, that the private market creates.
b) No government can spend its way out of a depression. Or print its way out.
What’s left to debate? “
Nothing.
That’s the problem with ‘fair and balanced’, it suggest being wrong is a valid solution.
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