Jimmy Carter created more jobs than 4 of the last 5 Republican presidents

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It must be pointed out that was the upper marginal tax rate, imposed on only the top tax bracket. With a 70% marginal tax rate, we could actually afford a space program that could put people on the moon, and an effective anti-poverty program. It was the Vietnam war that 'broke the bank' and ended both the Apollo program and the War on Poverty.

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1. Kick/Rec!!!!!

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2. If we could only have 10 more Jimmy Carter's ...

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3. Your link goes to this:

Pentagon recognizes climate change as a serious national security threat — again

on Raw Story

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5. Link corrected!

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4. AND Carter was known to have given out more pink slips for wasteful or redundant government

jobs than previous Republican presidents...

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6. Carter didn't have to deal with Reagonomics

That's not to say that his economic policies were working. Inflation was still in double digits and, in spite of the level of job creation, unemployment was still way too high. Not only the Vietnam War was responsible for these problems, which characterized the brief tenure of President Ford as well as President Carter's single term, but also the birth of the era of fuel shortages.

Nevertheless, it is true that Carter was working within a more stable framework that had provided long term economic prosperity for more Americans. It had worked since the New Deal, started over forty years before Carter became President.

Carter is also the only president to have developed an energy policy based on the idea that fossil fuels will exist in insufficient supply in the future and are otherwise unsuitable to meet either the demand for energy or energy supplies that are compatible with demands for a clean, healthy environment.

I don't think Carter was one of our best presidents, but I still think he was a better president than Reagan. Reaganomics produced an American economy characterized by cycles of boom and bust that culminated after less than thirty years with the Great Recession and the present era of good stealings by unregulated banks. The entire period from 1980 to the present has been one of an ever-increasing widening of the income gap. That even includes the Clinton years, when the speed at which the gap was widening decelerated, but was never reversed.

It is long past time to put an end to Reaganomics once and for all. It is also long past time to begin to supplement our energy supply with renewable sources with a view to eventually supplanting fossil fuels. The abiotic petroleum hypothesis and climate change denial, aimed at convincing the public that the earth will never run out of fossil fuels and that excessive fossil fuel use does not harm the environment, aren't being pushed by scientists but by oil and coal tycoons who are more interested in protecting their profits as long as possible than in solving the problems of energy supply shortages, climate change and environmental pollution.

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7. I recall an analysis that showed economic growth outstripping inflation

during the Carter years.

That last paragraph out renewables is spot-on. Thanks!

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8. Carter was a leader before his time...

as a progressive forward thinking president. If the people and congress could have embraced him, we would be living in a very different world today. He understood that the direction the U.S. was headed was unsustainable.