....when those of us who lived through the Jimmy Carter years thought that it couldn't possibly get any worse.
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You mean the time when a man could raise a family buy a house, 2 cars and put his kids through college? Yes...that was horrible. You can't blame Obama for 30 years of Reaganomics.[/QUOTE]
Yes, you might be able to buy a house, if you had a job, and if you could handle the 10% interest rate on that mortgage. A whole lot of people could not buy a house or a car, and would have loved a job. Double digit unemployment, double digit interest rates, and almost double digit inflation. A great time in America. They called it stagflation, and Jimmy suggested that the good ole days were over in America. Tighten your belt, and live with it.