Carter lost the election to the Gipper because of stagflation.

Not that Carter was omniscient or anything but it's going to take some
really fancy footwork for rightards to blame Carter and not high oil
prices.

Bret Cahill

On 17 Jul, 13:53, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:

the downturn you are talking about lasted from 1969 to 1982. The
economy did not recover until the market was allowed to correct itself
in the form of a recession.

Its a shame, but there's no way around it. if protectionism or tax and
spend policies worked we would never have another recession.
unfortuantly recessions are necessary to correct imbalances in an
economy. That's just how the world works.

Oh, Reagan doesn't get credit for his economy, but I bet Clinton gets
credit for his. Ok, got it.

I agree about Carter. May we hope that the same arguments can be equally
applied to Bush II? :-)
e.

"Ralph" noway.net> wrote in message
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On 17 Jul, 15:42, nos...@noway.net (Ralph) wrote:

president reagan takes the credit for ending stagflation. the price of
allowing the market to correct was a recession -

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:53:18 -0700 (PDT), BretCahill@peoplepc.com
wrote:

How many nuclear power plants have been built since Carter wimped out
after TMI?

What is the percent increase in foreign oil imports since Carter?
(200%%)...

On Jul 17, 2:07 pm, Patriot Games America.Com> wrote:

But,but,but,but,but Jimmuh has built homes and given them to "needy"
black families !! Does'nt that count???

You are leaving out the fact that Carter beat Ford because of stagflation.
There was a very nasty recession from 1973 to 1975, along with increasing
inflation, that set up Carter's win.

All the left wingnuts blamed Ford for the bad economy because they said he
was a bumbling and stupid fool, but then the genius Carter came along and
made everything worse.

Patriot Games America.Com> wrote in
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How many Chernobyls have there been since TMI?

It must be Carter's fault that our oil imports have increased.