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To: Beagle8U
I lived through the Carter years, with the gas lines, 10% unemployment, and 18% interest rates!!

It was under Carter that we had the highest "Misery Index". The misery index is calculated by adding the rate of inflation to the rate of unemployment. Under Carter, the average was 16.26, but that's not the whole story. When entering office, it was only 12.66. It reached a high of 21.98 in Carter's last year of his presidency in 1980.

Points of reference: Reagan took over for Carter and by 1986 it was down to 7.7

The average under Trump through May 2018 is 6.46.

46 posted on 03/22/2019 11:46:03 AM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Go Gordon

It wasn’t the terrible economic conditions, Carter watched as the Iranians held Americans hostage.

Then to prove how much of a whimp he was, he went and got his ass kicked by a rabbit!

What kind of pussified Commander in Chief gets his ass kicked by a rabbit? I mean, O’bastard could but nobody else.


47 posted on 03/22/2019 12:07:32 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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