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.
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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.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
It almost sounds like an Onion headline.
The feeble minded one speaks.....
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.
What, does Jimmah think it should have been effed up further? Is that his problem?
Habitat for Humanity HUH? Go to HELL carter. If there is a president to blame it’s Jimmuh crapper.
The nerve.
Jimmy the Pot is still looking to erase memory of his disastrous economy. (meet Kettle)
And our economy under Carter was what......in the tank? Will this guy ever go away?
And why doesn’t anybody know that the democrat majority congress spent one trillion dollars so far this year?
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.
Carter who?......
Isn’t he the one who signed the Community Re-investment Act?!
Was this before or after his rant about the orderly hiding his World Fair spoon?
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!!!
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?
As bad as things are today, I’m glad it’s not as bad as it was under “Clueless Carter!”
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/
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.
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