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To: SkyPilot
There are some similarities with Jimmy Malaise Carter. Lots of Viet Nam Veterans came home to find few jobs and a hostile population that would not give a vet a job. Carter had wrecked the economy with his voodoo economics. Gas prices were rising daily and gas shortages were common. Few vets wanted to work for the Government but with veterans preference we swallowed our pride and worked for the evil empire.
6 posted on 03/20/2013 6:45:41 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

Not enough Ross Perots out there...Perot gave preference to Vietnam War vets when he was running EDS.


8 posted on 03/20/2013 7:01:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mountainlion

You are thinking of the Nixon recession of 1973 to 1975, that is when I left the Army.

That was at the end of the Vietnam war and a time of fuel shortages and meat shortages, and a bad recession.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%E2%80%9375_recession


16 posted on 03/20/2013 12:30:29 PM PDT by ansel12 (" I would not be in the United States Senate if it wasnÂ’t for Sarah Palin " Cruz said.)
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To: mountainlion

Viet Nam was over before Carter became president. Veterans were having a hard time getting jobs but it was before Carter. I don’t think Ford’s W.I.N. buttons were helping. And it did get much worse after Carter took over. Boy, was it tough!


24 posted on 03/22/2013 1:38:36 AM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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