Posted on 04/13/2009 1:59:46 PM PDT by Mind Freed
Yep, you can take that to the bank. Carter is stupid where the Obamoron is dangerous. Under Carter, we had inflation that topped 21%. Reagan's tax cust did a whole lot to reverse the "stagflation" of Carter and grew the economy at a phenominal rate.
Twinkie, you were saying — Yes. Being lectured by Carter about how “we the people” were stuck in a “malaise” and needed to sacrifice and quit being so spoiled, needed to wear sweaters and turn down the heat . . then Reagan came along and told us “we the people” were more than OKAY...
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That reminds me of the time that I was driving around Portland, Oregon, back then, and people were still upset about the “double-nickel” speed limit (LOL...). I sure was.... :-)
And so..., one time, while driving down one of the freeways in town, there was a local sheriffs car that went zooming past me on the freeway, with me going 55. He didn’t have his lights on and I watched him for a bit, and then I said — “That’s it!”...
I “put the pedal to the metal” and went after that cop...
I had a pretty fast and powerful car, so it wasn’t a problem in catching up to him and I got right behind him and honked and flashed my lights and swerved slightly from side to side — and finally got his attention — and “pulled him over”...
He pulled over to the side and got out of his car, but he was sorta flustered that I had pulled him over in the first place and when he got out, he had not put his vehicle in park and it started driving away... LOL..
He jumped back in and jerked the thing into “Park” and the car jolted back and forth, forward and backward and stopped.
And then when he came over to me, as I was walking over to him, I let him know my complaint that if I was going to have to drive 55 MPH, then he better darned well drive 55 MPH too. I noted that I watched and he didn’t have his lights on and no siren and so, I was safe in *expecting* him to drive the speed limit. He made some kind of phoney-baloney excuse, but admitted not having any place to go do in an “emergency”.
He could see that I was “really hot” about it... :-)... and so, he finally tried to “make peace” and offered me to come over to the station house, see around the place and maybe go out on a cruise sometime, if I wanted... LOL...
Well, I just left it that way and finished my conversation with him and never followed up on those things he offered.
And since then, I’ve never pulled over a cop again... :-)
Nothing could make Carter look good. Obama will make him look better than he deserves. Carter did only two things right in 4 years:
— He appointed Paul Volcker chairman of the Federal Reserve, which helped make Carter a one-term president, but was good for the country. (All that pain was necessary to wring the inflation out of the economy...)
— He was lacking in any form of leadership, which prompted the country to turn to Reagan in 1980.
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I was in college when Carter was elected. I voted for Ford, even though he wasn’t so great. When Carter was done, not only had we been thru the hostage crisis in Iran, and had gas rationing, we had a 70% top marginal income tax rate, double digit inflation and double digit unemployment. Reagan very wisely understood that lower taxes meant an economic boom ultimately generating more income for the government, as well as job creation. The government itself is not supposed to “create” jobs! Rather, they are to have loose regulations - ours got too loose for a time - on corporations so the CORPORATIONS can create jobs. If we keep taxes where they are, and put back the banking regulations, our economy will come around WITHOUT any government interference. The so-called stimulus package is going to drive us into the ground.
LOL! Gosh I feel old now, I had just turned 20 when Regan was elected. I do remember how bad it was during those years but not enough to fill you in on what he did.
It doesn’t matter. Obama can do no wrong. Every action he takes is magnificently well thought out, thus demonstrating his coolness under presure. Mistakes will not occur in this administration.
If they do, the blame goes to Bush and/or those who thought they were mistakes when they were actually brilliant ploys.
He can’t be wrong! He is the Messiah!
No more Christmas lights because of the “energy crisis”. Christmas lights never came back to the level they were before Carter.
I was a photographer in DC during both the Carter and the Reagan years, and spent a lot of time in the White House around both of these presidents. Carter was not only the worst President we’ve ever had, but an arrogant, mean spirited little man. Reagan was the most humble and gracious man you’d ever want to meet. It didn’t matter who you were, he treated you the same as he would treat a foreign dignitary. I spent 6 hours in line to pay respects to him when he was laying in state in the Capitol. I won’t even think twice about Carter when he goes.
If we, the electorate, would vote for the best candidate that fits one's beliefs, regardless of party(Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Constitution, whatever!)... we'd be in a much better shape.
But no, we keep voting one way or the other, because our ‘betters’ tell us we should.
My first political memory was Reagan's first election. I remember Dad standing in front of the TV when they were announcing Carter's concession. I remember several nights when Reagan was to give a speech. Dad was never missed it. I caught him with a tear in his eye during one speech.
I was born in 1973. During the presidential race between Mondale and Reagan, I was voted to be Reagan in a 3 week mock campaign. We had to do speeches and debates for the class during that time about the issues of the day. I won in a landslide the day before election day.
I miss Reagan. I do have some CDs of some of his speeches. During the last few weeks of the campaign recently, I started listening to some of them again.
Is it just me or are good candidates and nominees getting fewer and fewer? More and more only career politicians run for president. I think that by the time they get there, they have no rational grip on the reality of the real lives of those they wish to represent. They have been indoctrinated and have already become drunk with power, subject to corruption and working for their own best interests and/or a place in a history book somewhere.
Truly great American leaders are not interested in leading buffoons. Best I can tell, more than 50% of Americans have become just that.
Speed limit put in its proper context - made to save GAS, not LIVES. No matter how the Safety NAZIs try to color it.
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