History repeats itself, unfortunately
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Posted By: MDConservative, 4/19/2022 7:51:38 PM
Forty years ago we had a soaring inflation rate, obscene gas prices and interest rates in the teens. Today, thanks to their incredible incompetence, bad policies and serial stupidity, the Democrats in Washington are bringing back all those problems. It’s getting so bad, I’m actually beginning to think Jimmy Carter was not such a bad president after all. People under 40 have no idea how bad things were in the late 1970s under Carter. They’ve grown up knowing only 3 percent interest rates, dirt cheap gasoline and 2 percent inflation. They don’t know how miserable things were under Carter or how miserable they can get again under Biden.
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Forty years ago we had a soaring inflation rate, obscene gas prices and interest rates in the teens.
Today, thanks to their incredible incompetence, bad policies and serial stupidity, the Democrats in Washington are bringing back all those problems.
It’s getting so bad, I’m actually beginning to think Jimmy Carter was not such a bad president after all.
People under 40 have no idea how bad things were in the late 1970s under Carter.
They’ve grown up knowing only 3 percent interest rates, dirt cheap gasoline and 2 percent inflation.
They don’t know how miserable things were under Carter or how miserable they can get again under Biden.
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bid speculation 33 replies
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Those who remember Carter recall LBJ, Nixon and Ford...with profligate guns-and-butter spending, wage-price controls, the beginning of fiat currency, and WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons. Carter was awful and in many ways victim of his predecessors. Biden deserves scorn and derision, but let's not dismiss the contributions of his predecessor and Congress, who appropriated TRILLIONS to balloon the national debt and get the inflation train rolling out of the station. It took 15 years to get the last bout of inflation under control. It takes political guts to raise interest rates to the point necessary. Back then that was 20% on a mortgage! To quote Ronald Reagan, I fear "we ain't seen nothing yet."