Deconstructing Democrats: The Failure of Jimmy Carter

The American Partisan ^ | 1 March, 2002 | J. King

[woofie]

I remember trying to buy a house when the interest rates were so high you couldnt see over them...

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Great article, I fully agree that "This, after all is Jimmy Carter, one of America‘s worst and most muddleheaded Presidents. Who could ever forget the disastrous Presidency of Jimmy Carter? The obscure one-time Governor of Georgia, the Peanut Farmer of Plains, the guy whose cousin ran - of all improbable things - a WORM farm."

CARTER'S TRIP TO CUBA

FOR FREEDOM & JUSTICE GROUP | 3/27/02 | Jesus J. Chao March 27, 2002

Dear Mr. Carter:

It is unconscionable that you, a man of principle that once received the highest honor of being chosen to be president of this great nation is planning to travel to the main terrorist stronghold in this hemisphere in a mission aimed to aid and abet a bloody tyrant leader of a country recognized by the U.S. State Department among the five main terrorist states in the world while undermining President Bush’s war against terrorism.

Thousands of Islamic, Spanish ETA, Colombian FARC, Irish IRA, Puerto Rican “Macheteros”, Peruvian “Sendero Luminoso,” and every other brand of terrorists and most of the guerrillas in Latin America have received haven, training, financing, logistical and intelligence support from the Cuban regime. Tens of thousands died in Latin America, Africa, Middle East and the Far East at the hands of Castro’s armies and proxies. This is not counting the tens of thousands of Cubans murdered by his infamous firing squads, over 500,000 Cubans who suffered the rigors and tortures of Castro’s political dungeons, and the untold tens of thousands who died trying to cross the Florida Straits in fragile makeshift rafts in their pursuit for freedom.

I am sure you are well informed that Castro has defaulted in all his international financial obligations and also encourages other Third World countries to do likewise. Castro stopped payments long ago on the 12 billion dollar debt to the Paris Club of European Banks. He owes over 2 billion dollars to Japan, 9 billion to Spain, 1.28 billion to Argentina and several billions more to England, Venezuela and every other of the 150 countries that were unwise enough to deal with him.

According to Euromoney’s country investment risk survey, Cuba was placed in 183rd place out of 187 countries, ranking even below Somalia. “Why then, investors may ask, should they bother with Cuba in a world replete with opportunities and more welcoming governments?” The Financial Times reported on June 30 1995. The reason is obvious: Cuba is a paradise for money laundering from terrorism, drug traffic, for hiding the proceeds from the graft and pillage of corrupt politicians, and a sanctuary for American murderers and money swindlers fugitive of the U.S. justice. No honest businessman would get involved with a criminal in a country where there is no rule of law and everybody is at the expense of Castro’s whims.

In Cuba, Castro and the State are just one and the same; he allocates the product of his joint ventures with foreigners and the income from money laundering to his accounts in Switzerland without ever passing through the Cuban Treasure. In fact, Castro, according to Forbes, is among the richest chief of state in the world while the Cuban people are kept in dire poverty.

Another factor you have to reconcile with is that every deal; every investment in Cuba is a “joint venture” in partnership with the Cuban tyrant, and that includes being part of slave labor practices, for which those entrepreneurs and multinationals, sooner or later, will pay dearly just as it happened with the companies involved in slave labor during the Nazi era. Any foreign company investing in Cuba must pay Castro between 8 to 9 thousands dollars a year for each worker they hire, Castro on the other hand, pays the worker in Cuban pesos the equivalent of $180 per year, an outrageous bribe without parallel in the world. In fact, you know quite well that the American companies are prohibited by our laws to be involved in any kind of bribe when dealing with other countries.

You had your days of glory with the Camp Davis Peace Accord, but Sadat was a patriot, a man of extraordinary courage and strong moral and religious principles. I know Castro, and Castro is not Sadat.

You also had great failures during your presidency, skyrocketing inflation, the highest interest rates and of unemployment in decades and even worse, the steep decline of U.S.’ prestige in the world.

I wonder, where you had been living for the last 43 years? Cuba is a country with state of the art chemical, biological and cyber warfare capabilities aimed against the U.S. Fidel Castro has been all his life a declared mortal enemy of the U.S. and the values it represents. This is the same dictator who urged Soviet Prime Minister, Nikita Khrushchev, to nuke our cities during the Missile Crisis, and whose henchmen took special delight in brutally torturing our P.O.W.’s during the Vietnam War. Have you forgotten the Americans taken as hostages by the Iranian hoodlums, and the Mariel boatlift?

Who do you want to emulate, the Duke of Windsor, or the English former Socialist Prime Minister of England, Loyd George, who called Hitler the “greatest living German” during a visit to Berlin in 1935? Or do you want to dethrone Prime Minister Chamberlain’s record as the greatest appeaser in history? What is the purpose of your trip to Cuba, to reward Castro with the American taxpayers largesse for all his crimes against humanity?

Mr. Carter, you were a failure as a president, but everybody acknowledges that you are a man with a good heart, please, do not destroy your good name, you are not the President of the U.S. anymore, leave it to President Bush and his most able team of foreign affairs experts to deal with Castro.

Sincerely yours,

Jesús J. Chao

Carter's e.mail: carterweb@emory.edu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The above is sent to you by FOR FREEDOM & JUSTICE GROUP Cooper City, Florida http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ForFreedomandJustice

COMENTARIES TAKEN FROM ANOTHER POST

Carter said Friday he expects the Bush administration's "tacit approval, not their blessing." He wants to talk about expanding trade and tourism, he said “This whole things smells unusual and makes you wonder who or what is stoking the heat for Carter's steam and what track his little engine is moving.”

It certainly smells rotten. It seems Carter is pursuing the mutual beneficial relationship with ADM that is the one financing this campaign of business with Castro at the expense of the American taxpayers. Archer Daniels and Midland’s shady businesses are well documented in “RATS IN THE GRAIN” The Dirty tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, The Supermarket to the World. By James B. Lieber. (Carter’s relationship pages, 90,92,96,97).

There is a long a dubious relation between Carter and ADM. According to Lieber, Carter appointed Hubert Humprey’s “chief aide, David Gartner, to one of the five seats on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). When it came out that Andreas family recently ha given Gartner’s children ADM stock worth $72,000, a furor erupted… The New York Times editorialized against the Andreas-Gartner connection as ‘too close for public comfort.” (Rats in the Grain, page 90).

“ADM bought Carter’s floundering peanut farm for $1.5 million dollars, and gave another million to Habitat for Humanity when Carter became associated with the non-profit home builder.” (Rats in the Grain page 92).

Later, during the oil crisis, Carter, at instances of Dwayne Andreas (chairman of ADM) pushed for a huge ethanol subsidy that “resulted in a whopping 54 cent per gallon for bulk ethanol producers… Congress also mandated the Department of Agriculture to issue loan guarantees for ethanol distillers. Ethanol subsidies deprived the treasury of about $770 million per year. Each dollar of ADM profit from ethanol cost taxpayers thirty dollars.” (Rats in the Grain, page 96).

"At critical points, ADM used political influence to preserve its near monopoly rather than expand supply. For instance in 1980, President Carter’s campaign chairman, Robert Strauss, called the White House and successfully made the case for slapping a high tariff on Brazilian ethanol. After Carter lost the election, Straus joined the ADM board of directors.”… “In the desperate days before Reagan’s victory, Carter’s team approved a rang of loans to the ethanol industry, some with little or no review… Later, a Reagan administration inspector general found irregularities in the approval process and rescinded the loans.” (Rats in the Grain, page 97).

AMERICANS BEWARE! The scam being concocted by Castro and ADM would make it appear as peanuts all previous scandals, we are at the threshold of the mother of all scandals at the expense of our taxpayers.