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To: cake_crumb

You’re clueless. An economist invented the misery index, not a peanut farmer. Carter was too dumb to invent anything but he did use it to criticize Ford.

Reagan popularized it by slamming Carter with it incessantly.


210 posted on 01/22/2008 8:29:06 AM PST by green iguana
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To: green iguana; cake_crumb

I’m pretty sure that Carter didn’t coin the term ‘recession’ either.


213 posted on 01/22/2008 8:33:32 AM PST by JeffAtlanta
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