Are We Worse Off Than When Carter Was President?

Jimmy Carter says things haven’t improved much since he was president. This seems kind of ridiculous since the majority opinion was that things improved drastically the minute Carter stopped being president. The sun started shining again, there were parades and songs… it was a glorious time.

On the other hand, let’s say you were experiencing the malaise of the seventies and then got hit by a bus and went into a coma and you just finally woke up now. Looking at today’s conditions, it would seem like things stayed pretty stagnant since the seventies with America barely hobbling along. It’s basically the same malaise except now we have iPhones.

This certainly isn’t the future we want for our children. I grew up in the eighties surrounded by happiness and optimism and no Carter, and I hope the same thing for my Buttercup. She’ll be two in 2012, and by the time she learns what a president is hopefully we’ll have a president worth learning about. We want things better for our children, so next we need better than Reagan. Like a cybernetically enhanced Reagan.

Or I’ll be mad.

18 Comments

  1. It’s basically the some malaise except and now we have iPhones too.

    That needed fixed.

    Carter also said he would have won in 1980 if not for a third party candidate. Many years ago, stupidity that stupid was uncommon stupidity.

    Hey, that’s pretty good.Uncommon Stupidity Frank, I think you should write that book about liberals.

  2. The one and ONLY thing that Jimmy Carter did while he was president was make home brewing legal. I suspect it was totally by accident somehow-probably buried in some bill that he, of course, did not read.
    (Probably outlawed again somewhere in the Obamacare bill)

  3. You know, we’re due for another good, prosperous decade. They seem to come along one out of every 3:

    1890s: Industrial Revolution

    1920s: Roaring Twenties

    1950s: Military-Industrial Complex

    1980s: Upwardly mobile middle class

    2010s: Tea Partiers.

  4. FormerHostage,

    Thank you so much! I found and read the old post about your time in that great sandy hellhole of a parking lot. Too many of us in this country take our Marines for granted. Is it because we’re so used to excellence?

  5. Frank, your question is like asking someone to compare rotten apples with rotten apples. It’s much easier to compare carmel apples with chocolate oranges, for example. Don’t make me remind you again.

  6. I was selling cars when Jimmy Carter was POTUS as a young lad just out of college. Every car dealer (owner) I knew back then literally went insane! They would look at their new car inventory and start calculating 20% floorplan (or the loan they owed the company for the cars) and it drove them nuts! But then Ronald Magnus came riding out of the sunset and “There was a New Day in America”!!!

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