If you’re only 47 years old, you hardly were of an age to worry about making a living during the Carter years.
I see math isn't your strong suit. I started working in 1976 at the age of 14 at a local county airport as a lineman. Something else happened that year, too. Care to guess what it was? It was the election of Jimmy Carter, that's what. I graduated high school in 1980, smack dab in the middle of the Carter "malaise". Double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, a misery index that was quoted nightly on the news. Entry level jobs were almost non-existent. My first four years of college were spent working 3-4 part time jobs just to make ends meet. Please don't tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about. I do because I lived and worked through it and it was a hell of a lot worse than it is now. It wasn't until Reagan's policies kicked in about the time earned my undergraduate degree in 1984 that I experienced a growing job market for the very first time. I was earning my graduate degree (self funded, I might add) along about the time the stock market crash of 1987 came along. Do you remember that? Do you remember the Dot-Com bomb? I was running a technology based business smack in the middle of that fiasco, too!
It's far better to ask questions if you are unsure of something as opposed to open your mouth with ridiculous statements and remove all doubt......