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Ex-president Carter slams Bush on market crisis
Reuters ^ | Oct. 10, 2008 | Reuters

Posted on 10/10/2008 9:15:20 AM PDT by sazerac

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the "atrocious economic policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Carter told reporters on a stopover in Brussels that "profligate spending," massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 were behind the market turmoil and economic crisis.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; carter; carterlegacy; cra; jimmycarter; pieceofcrap; worstexpresident
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Worst president EVER!!!

There has been ZERO deregulation of financial markets this decade! This is the new democrat spin! I would like to ask president Carter exactly what Bush did to cause the crisis?

I would also like him to produce a single economist who thinks tax cuts had anything to do with the crisis.

These democrats are lying and we've only got two weeks to make people understand this stuff! The problem was the democrats and no supervision of fannie mae like the republicans tried to get.

1 posted on 10/10/2008 9:15:20 AM PDT by sazerac
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To: sazerac

Pot. Kettle. Black.

It almost sounds like an Onion headline.


2 posted on 10/10/2008 9:16:07 AM PDT by DemonDeac
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To: sazerac

The feeble minded one speaks.....


3 posted on 10/10/2008 9:16:23 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (Success begets knowledge; failure begets wisdom.)
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To: sazerac

NOt only the worst president EVER, but the worst EX-president EVER!!

What a despicable, vacuous, communist shill.

He has violated EVERY precedent of decorum for ex-presidents.

He is NOT a gentleman, and should NEVER have been a president.

The same can be said for his progege’, Obama.


4 posted on 10/10/2008 9:17:44 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: sazerac

What, does Jimmah think it should have been effed up further? Is that his problem?


5 posted on 10/10/2008 9:17:50 AM PDT by GreenAccord (Bacon Akbar!)
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To: sazerac

Habitat for Humanity HUH? Go to HELL carter. If there is a president to blame it’s Jimmuh crapper.


6 posted on 10/10/2008 9:17:57 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: sazerac

The nerve.


7 posted on 10/10/2008 9:18:19 AM PDT by KansasGirl (READ MY LIPSTICK, OBAMA IS JUST CREEPY!)
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To: sazerac

Jimmy the Pot is still looking to erase memory of his disastrous economy. (meet Kettle)


8 posted on 10/10/2008 9:18:51 AM PDT by ntnychik
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To: sazerac

And our economy under Carter was what......in the tank? Will this guy ever go away?


9 posted on 10/10/2008 9:18:55 AM PDT by RC2
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To: sazerac

And why doesn’t anybody know that the democrat majority congress spent one trillion dollars so far this year?


10 posted on 10/10/2008 9:19:33 AM PDT by sazerac
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15 percent inflation. 9 percent unemployment. 21 percent mortgage rates.

Jimmy, how's about a nice big bowl of STFU?
11 posted on 10/10/2008 9:19:47 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: sazerac

History might not be that favorable to Bush as a President, but when comparing him to Carter, he’ll look great as does any former President.


12 posted on 10/10/2008 9:19:53 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: sazerac

Carter who?......


13 posted on 10/10/2008 9:20:13 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Isn’t he the one who signed the Community Re-investment Act?!


14 posted on 10/10/2008 9:20:16 AM PDT by babydubya1981 (Homeschooling Moms for McCain/Palin 08)
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To: sazerac

Was this before or after his rant about the orderly hiding his World Fair spoon?


15 posted on 10/10/2008 9:20:31 AM PDT by henkster ($700 billion debt swap with foreign banks to finance government borrowing)
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To: sazerac

Hey Jimmy, STFU. Remember the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977? It finally exploded the markets in 2008 and is now turning everyone’s 401k into a 101k.
It’s CARTER’S FAULT!!!


16 posted on 10/10/2008 9:20:42 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: sazerac

Carter is nothing but a cheap shot hack for the loser dems. He is the most pathetic former President I have ever read about or witnessed. The man has these pseudo Christian values and continues to fool the gullible and naiive. Since 1976 I have been wishing, why doesn’t he just go away?


17 posted on 10/10/2008 9:20:44 AM PDT by rj45mis
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To: sazerac

As bad as things are today, I’m glad it’s not as bad as it was under “Clueless Carter!”


18 posted on 10/10/2008 9:21:00 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: sazerac

The CARTER legacy (expanded under Clinton) keeps on giving:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act

Bill Clinton Agrees That Democrats Caused Financial Crisis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE

ACORN - Obama & the CRA

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/30/video-stanley-kurtz-on-obama-acorn-and-the-cra/

Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans

http://www.mediacircus.com/2008/10/obama-sued-citibank-under-cra-to-force-it-to-make-bad-loans/


19 posted on 10/10/2008 9:21:18 AM PDT by RasterMaster (CHANGE is not a destination - HOPE is not a strategy!)
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To: sazerac

This is the same gu who when he left office had double digit unemployment. Double digit interest rates and double digit inflation. Lest we not forget the gas lines and I could go on and on. Carter will go in history as the absolute worst President of the 20th Century and that includes Hoover, Harding and Collidge. By the way, going abroad and bashing a sitting President is another reason why he is also the worst Ex- President.


20 posted on 10/10/2008 9:21:26 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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