PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Rush on December 29, 2024, 03:44:49 PM
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Age 100. He stayed alive that long to vote against Trump and see Harris win.
Oh well.
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No way he was able to cast his own vote.
The photos from just two weeks ago prove it.
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Thanks to B.O. Jimmy is no longer the worst President in History.
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Thanks to B.O. Jimmy is no longer the worst President in History.
bah - President Carter was better than the clinton pig
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Thanks to B.O. Jimmy is no longer the worst President in History.
Are you counting the FJB term as BHO's third term?
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Carter was a decent and good man. But his politics sucked. He did do a lot of good after his Presidency.
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Carter was a decent and good man. But his politics sucked. He did do a lot of good after his Presidency.
I think most everyone agrees with this. Except maybe some Dems who think he was a great president.
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I think most everyone agrees with this. Except maybe some Dems who think he was a great president.
Not dems. Communists who think that twenty percent mortgages reduced the growing middle class by making home ownership out of reach.
Fucking idiots.
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Carter was a decent and good man. But his politics sucked. He did do a lot of good after his Presidency.
Agreed. His politics sucked and he was a horrible president. But I think he was the best ex-president we've had. He did a lot of good.
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He got my very first Presidential vote as a dumbass 18-year-old. Of course, he was also the last democrat I ever voted for.
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He got my very first Presidential vote as a dumbass 18-year-old. Of course, he was also the last democrat I ever voted for.
Same here.
I voted for him as governor after he came to our high school to give a talk to seniors a few days before graduation.
And I voted for him as President after he came to Jekyll Island to give our research group State commendations for some of the work we were doing.
I always admired the man and I felt sorry for the situation I helped him get himself into. I was so glad when RR came along.
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I had just turned 21 when Carter entered office. I didn't pay attention at the time, but Carter's 1978 State of the Union address had this:
"Government cannot solve our problems. It can't set the goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty, or provide a bountiful economy…or save our cities."
That is a libertarian view and Carter followed through by deregulating air travel, trucking, railroads, and energy. On the other hand his foreign policy sucked and he had a tendency to lecture to voters.
The irony is that Carter, a Democrat, had to deal with the inflation and economic damage of Republican Nixon's wage and price controls, surcharges on imports, and cancellation of the gold standard (actions collectively known as the "Nixon Shock".)
This article beats up on Carter too, but then goes about explaining why Carter was the most libertarian president of the modern era by rolling back government controls of key sectors the economy:
https://reason.com/2024/12/29/rip-jimmy-carter-the-passionless-president/?comments=true#comments (https://reason.com/2024/12/29/rip-jimmy-carter-the-passionless-president/?comments=true#comments)
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I don’t think I have seen as naive a politician as jimmy carter at any time in my life.
His cabinet was just as corrupt as biden’s without the abject senility excuse, and his response to world events was without a doubt, useless.
Being a nice guy and working with habitat for many years doesn’t cancel any of that out.
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"Government cannot solve our problems. It can't set the goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty, or provide a bountiful economy…or save our cities."
That is a libertarian view and Carter followed through by deregulating air travel, trucking, railroads, and energy.
And how did that work out?
In my personal experience, the best thing that happened under Carter was the 20%+ mortgage rates. This forced my young ass out of the real-estate business and I went back to school to learn computer programming (BAL, COBOL and JCL). I never used those languages professionally, but they got me back into the tech and my career took off from there (before several other twists and turns).
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One other point in my history is that I was a 24 yr old liberal when Carter was elected. I was a 28 yr old conservative when he lost to Reagan. That makes the theory that your brain doesn't mature till around 25. And that is why I advocate for a 25 yr old voting age.
Some people claim that you shouldn't send kids that can't vote off to war. But the two things are different. Voting takes reason and logic. Combat takes physical skills, energy and a certain amount of a feeling of invulnerability. If we prevented 18 yr olds for voting we might not get ourselves in the messes that have contributed to our wars.
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I also voted for Carter. Had a bunch of guys at work not happy with me. Learned my lesson though.
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And how did that work out?
In my personal experience, the best thing that happened under Carter was the 20%+ mortgage rates. This forced my young ass out of the real-estate business and I went back to school to learn computer programming (BAL, COBOL and JCL). I never used those languages professionally, but they got me back into the tech and my career took off from there (before several other twists and turns).
My young ass thought that was normal.
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I don’t think I have seen as naive a politician as jimmy carter at any time in my life.
His cabinet was just as corrupt as biden’s without the abject senility excuse, and his response to world events was without a doubt, useless.
Being a nice guy and working with habitat for many years doesn’t cancel any of that out.
My thoughts exactly. The fact that he did charitable work is great, but doesn't cancel out the damage he did as President. The economy, foreign affairs, and all the other incompetence was horrific. Democrats do what Democrats do. Attempt to destroy America in an effort to install their failed ideals.
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I was only 4 days old during the 1978 election.
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I was only 4 days old during the 1978 election.
…FINE!
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I have mixed feelings about deregulating the airlines. I say this as a free market libertarian. I HATED the airline deregulation. It's what led to seat dimensions contracting to inhumane levels and the end of meal service in coach. I understand it was also what made air travel affordable for many more people. Thomas Sowell praised it for that reason. But it transformed air travel from a pleasant comfortable experience into claustrophobic hell, unless you pay for first class. Before that you took the Greyhound bus, which I did to travel to NYC when I was a poor college student. You could fly if you weren't rich, it was just limited to special trips that you had to save for.
Grumpy old lady mode on: I grew up in an age where if you wanted to go somewhere you traveled by car, bus or passenger train. If you wanted to fly it was a special occasion, OR you took flying lessons and bought a bugsmasher. People don't have a "right" to fly at dirt cheap prices. Commercial flying is now Greyhound bus only with much worse seats. it's been ruined. GET OFF MY LAWN.
Grumpy old lady mode off. I agree with Sowell it has opened up commercial flying to everyone, and is an example of how free market economics lifts everyone, even the most poor, to a better quality of life. ... if you call being squashed like a sardine in a can and expected to go without lunch "quality".
But the railroads needed to be deregulated. They had been absolutely crippled under heavy regulation since the previous century and were so bad they had to actually be subsidized for freight. There are a lot of complicated reasons this came about but the long and short is that rail was going bankrupt and the Staggers Act that Carter signed opened up the thriving rail freight system we have today. It's far from perfect but was a big improvement. But it's not like I credit Carter with it; it passed the House and Senate overwhelmingly and it was kind of obvious it was needed. What was he gonna do, not sign it?
Look at the impact on freight rates. I audit rail freight; I can tell you, rail freight rates go into virtually EVERYTHING you buy. Rail (and trucking) and the diesel that is their go juice, are probably the biggest factors driving pricing in the entire economy, aside from printing money.