Reagan v. Carter

[Serenity Now]

I stumbled across this on facebook. Made me laugh.

Reagan: Did military in Hollywood.
Carter: As a Navy Lieutenant, lowered himself into a damaged nuclear reactor, saving lives.

Reagan: Secretly armed the Islamic Republic of Iran
Carter: Strictly limited arms sales to foreign nations at war.

Reagan: Created an average of 167,000 jobs per month.
Carter: Created an average of 215,000 jobs per month.

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/arti...ers_99968.html

Jobs created most in order: Clinton, Carter, Johnson, Reagan, Nixon.

I think Carter gets a bad rap. I also like Reagan. You can like them both.

Amazing that 52 hostages were released as soon as Reagan was inaugurated. Wonder why?

The same guys that we sold arms to a few years later......hmmmmmm

Crazy world. Someone oughta sell tickets!

[olevetonahill]

This is ME worrying about YOU

[okie52]

Wow... The 21% prime! gas rationing and windfall profits guy was the good one. What was I thinking!!!

[REDREX]

Wow... The 21% prime! gas rationing and windfall profits guy was the good one. What was I thinking!!!

---Not to mention the sky high inflation rate----Carter was clueless-----But we did boycott the Olympics---He showed those Russkies

[FaninAma]

It is somehow reassuring that we can always count on Serenity to regurgitate bull**** from the left.
http://www.cato.org/publications/pol...conomic-record

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I had as much zeal for Carter in the 1976 election as I did Schlickmeister in '92 and Bear in '08. The Carter induced 21% interest rate was the final straw for him before the 1980 election, if my memory serves me correctly.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

---Not to mention the sky high inflation rate----Carter was clueless-----But we did boycott the Olympics---He showed those Russkies

I remember early on when Carter gave away the Panama Canal. That set the tone for his "administration".

[okie52]

---Not to mention the sky high inflation rate----Carter was clueless-----But we did boycott the Olympics---He showed those Russkies

Sometimes you have to get tough

[champions77]

But it's ok, Serenity "liked" Reagan too.

Carter lost his re-election bid and Reagan won re-election. What were they thinking back then?

[dwarthog]

We just didn't realize how good we had it under Carter I guess....

[TAFBSooner]

It is somehow reassuring that we can always count on Serenity to regurgitate bull**** from the left.
http://www.cato.org/publications/pol...conomic-record

After the declaration that Serenity's statements were bull****, I expected your citation to refute them. Instead you ignored them and added unrelated information in favor of Reagan. A more accurate formulation would have been " . . . on the other hand, (Cato.org) . . ."

I like some of what Reagan did, too.

"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!"

. . . and rebuild it along the Rio Grande!

[Serenity Now]

It is somehow reassuring that we can always count on Serenity to regurgitate bull**** from the left.
http://www.cato.org/publications/pol...conomic-record

I am not a Reagan hater. I just don't light a candle each morning at sunrise to his picture like some of you guys. And, amnesty/iran/israel/gun control would sink him in today's GOP. He'll he'd be a Democrat.

Carter also called a gutsy raid to go rescue the hostages that failed. I still get a kick that the hostages were released the day of the inauguration by the guys we ended up selling arms illegally to. I mean, what are the odds?

Carter has done the most positives with his life AFTER his service than anyone else. He's much like Tom Coburn to me, even if you don't agree with him you have to respect him. He eradicated the guinea worm.

This quote from the link below says a lot about his failures as a President and his successes as a leader afterwards.

The stubbornness and sense of moral purpose that disabled Carter during his presidency has served him well in these post-presidential crusades.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...r-guinea-worm/

[Serenity Now]

It is somehow reassuring that we can always count on Serenity to regurgitate bull**** from the left.
http://www.cato.org/publications/pol...conomic-record

Don't refute bull**** with bull****:

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch,[6] chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.[nb 1] In July 1976, the name was changed to the Cato Institute.[6][7] Cato was established to have a focus on public advocacy, media exposure and societal influence.[8] According to the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), Cato is number 16 in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide" and number 8 in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States".[9] Cato also topped the 2014 list of the budget-adjusted ranking of international development think tanks.

1996 is too soon to say if "Reaganomics" succeeded or not. I will say that, according to my MBA economics instructor, the last President to do supply side economics correctly was Kennedy.

[Serenity Now]

I might as well put up a link to mediamatters.org. It's probably less biased.

[TAFBSooner]

---Not to mention the sky high inflation rate----Carter was clueless-----But we did boycott the Olympics---He showed those Russkies

But I thought arming the Afghans beginning in July 1979 was part of not just punishing but ending the Soviet Union . . .

[FaninAma]

Don't refute bull**** with bull****:
1996 is too soon to say if "Reaganomics" succeeded or not. I will say that, according to my MBA economics instructor, the last President to do supply side economics correctly was Kennedy.

Yeah, you're right. The Cato Institute's in depth study on Reagan's policies is equivalent to the erroneous bull**** you pulled off somebody's Facebook page. My bad.

[Serenity Now]

Yeah, you're right. The Cato Institute's in depth study on Reagan's policies is equivalent to the erroneous bull**** you pulled off somebody's Facebook page. My bad.

I beg your pardon, "erroneous" is inaccurate. The numbers about job creation don't lie and I put a link up to indicate such. The other two issues are public information that is a "known/known".

I added the 52 hostages released on my own. It's one of my favorite little asbestos-y things. You guys don't talk about it parties. You know, that 52 hostages were released by the TERRORISTS that we SOLD weapons to illegally just a few years later. But, it gets better...Now we're lambasting the current President for negotiating a nuclear agreement with the P5+1 AND that same group.

[olevetonahill]

I beg your pardon, "erroneous" is inaccurate. The numbers about job creation don't lie and I put a link up to indicate such. The other two issues are public information that is a "known/known".

I added the 52 hostages released on my own. It's one of my favorite little asbestos-y things. You guys don't talk about it parties. You know, that 52 hostages were released by the guys that we bought weapons from illegally just a few years later.

Do you just post crap and hope someone believes it?

[Curly Bill]

Carter was a weak, angst-ridden hand wringer. You'd expect those like him to look upon him fondly.

[Serenity Now]

Do you just post crap and hope someone believes it?

What's not factual?

Did Iran NOT release the hostages THE DAY that Reagan was inaugurated?
Did Reagan's US NOT illegally sell arms to Iran?
Have the right wing NOT been critical of Obama on trying to work with Iran?