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Under Reagan top personal tax bracket dropped from 70% to 28%.
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He was a man whose energy policies would have worked to save us from the mess we're in now.
How shamefully prescient that man was.
20% interest rates.
7.8% unemployment.
Iran Hostage Crises.
Mondale.
20% interest rates.
7.8% unemployment.
Iran Hostage Crises.
Mondale.
well, he ran 4 years later, and won 2 states and DCReagan embraces the same fed policy, the high unemployment was largely the result of stagflation due to decade long high oil prices, and the hostages were released with no deaths.
As for Mondale...what exactly was the problem?
The President controls the budget.
Congress is just a rubber stamp.
Reading the Rev. Moon's newspaper I see...
and the hostages were released with no deaths.
Under Reagan top personal tax bracket dropped from 70% to 28%.
Perhaps you're forgetting the botched rescue attempt.
I never have understood the conservative animosity for Carter. His YoY spending was just slightly below that of Reagans; he opened up North Slope oil; started the ball rolling on deregulation; placed Saddam on the terrorist list; pushed through CART restrictions that cut oil consumption and the price of gas in half; and not only believed in Christ but lived his beliefs.
Yet cons hated him. Go figure...
He didn't handle the hostage crises well. That was his major downfall. And while he was an honest man, we wasn't a particularly good politician, at least from the pulpit of the presidency.
Yet, in retrospect, his handling of the hostage crises was no worse, in fact arguably better than Reagan's handling of the Lebanese hostage crisis. Carter never caved into terrorists, or paid ransom for hostages like Reagan did. Carter never illegally sold high tech weapons secretly to iran, to gain the hostages freedom.
True but the predicate was shame and I am not ashamed of the rescue attempt nor the courage those men showed. How are you ashamed?
yes, but what's yer point? thebrockguy will not raise taxes on anyone unless they make over 250,000 dollars,, right? right.
and he's gonna make sure I have health care just like he does..
without raising my taxes...
what's not to like?
we will see.. gobrockguy
Doesn't Carter actually get credit for solving the hostage crisis? Just because Ronnie took office around the day it was resolved...I've never understood why Ronnie got credit.He didn't handle the hostage crises well. That was his major downfall. And while he was an honest man, we wasn't a particularly good politician, at least from the pulpit of the presidency.
Yet, in retrospect, his handling of the hostage crises was no worse, in fact arguably better than Reagan's handling of the Lebanese hostage crisis. Carter never caved into terrorists, or paid ransom for hostages like Reagan did. Carter never illegally sold high tech weapons secretly to iran, to gain the hostages freedom.
Doesn't Carter actually get credit for solving the hostage crisis? Just because Ronnie took office around the day it was resolved...I've never understood why Ronnie got credit.
No shame here.
And yet the animosity by conservatives towards Carter remains. It really doesn't make any sense. Were you against increased military spending; against North Slope oil; against deregulation of airlines, trucking, and railroads; against pegging Saddam as the terrorist he was; against indexing taxes to inflation and reducing capital gains taxes; against breaking the back of stagflation; against having a real Christian as a president? What part of Carters actions, all against a very hostile Democratic congress, were so abhorrent to conservatives?
Doesn't Carter actually get credit for solving the hostage crisis? Just because Ronnie took office around the day it was resolved...I've never understood why Ronnie got credit.