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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
I think you're giving way too much credit for the New Deal. You forgot how bad inflation got during the 70's
Carter just didn't have a clue.
Presidents make mistakes, all of them, you want to bust them on it, go for it, it's still not going to fix what Obama is trying to do, right now he wants to have a 2nd stimulus. Everyone that thinks this is a good idsea,. raise your hand!
Japan tried it, kept spending, google Japans lost decade
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The recession of the 70's started under Nixon as a result of the US leaving the gold standard. As a matter of fact, every recession we've had in the past forty years has started under a republican administration.
People think Jimmy Carter was a terrible president but he was actually trying to solve the problems we faced in terms of the long run instead of living for the retarded moment, ignoring our problems and hoping they go away, which was the policy of the Reagan administration. Jimmy Carter tried to rid us of our dependence on foreign oil after the whole fiasco with OPEC and he was laughed at. Look at all the fucking trouble we would have saved ourselves if we had started focusing on the problem back then rather than ignoring it. All of this bullshit in the middle east could have been avoided. No, we didn't want that, we're AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!! We'll just come and take your fucking oil and overthrow your government.
It's going to take a fucking nuclear bomb getting set off within our borders by a terrorist for us to stop fucking around where we don't belong.