Sweet, sounds like a plan.travelling high wrote:I understand D.C but it is difficult to have seen how great we once were and to see the downward spiral that has become the American gov...I am a citizen of the World and an American trying to fix this mess we have gotten into..I tell ya what mate when I get there in April I will come and see ya sign the book and when your off we can get twisted..And not talk politics..LOL
"Carter worked hard to combat the continuing economic woes of inflation and unemployment. By the end of his administration, he could claim an increase of nearly eight million jobs and a decrease in the budget deficit, measured in percentage of the gross national product. Unfortunately, inflation and interest rates were at near record highs, and efforts to reduce them caused a short recession.Bluelaru wrote:Hi guys...your forgetting Jimmy Carter
Carter could point to a number of achievements in domestic affairs. He dealt with the energy shortage by establishing a national energy policy and by decontrolling domestic petroleum prices to stimulate production. He prompted Government efficiency through civil service reform and proceeded with deregulation of the trucking and airline industries. He sought to improve the environment. His expansion of the national park system included protection of 103 million acres of Alaskan lands. To increase human and social services, he created the Department of Education, bolstered the Social Security system, and appointed record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics to Government jobs.
In foreign affairs, Carter set his own style. His championing of human rights was coldly received by the Soviet Union and some other nations. In the Middle East, through the Camp David agreement of 1978, he helped bring amity between Egypt and Israel. He succeeded in obtaining ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. Building upon the work of predecessors, he established full diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and completed negotiation of the SALT II nuclear limitation treaty with the Soviet Union."
You're right Blue, we are forgetting about him and worse even still, I think nearly everybody else has too. He was a decent chap and the first president I ever heard of. I first went to America in the early 80s just after he had been in office and from a teenagers point of view, it was everything I thought it would be..Big, bright, exciting and yet relaxed. The place where dreams still seemed possible and I loved it....and this was in New Jersey!!
But knowing what we know now, like JFK, I think Jimmy Carter was assassinated...not with a gun though, with a bank. There has been a downward spiral ever since and as TH says it might be difficult to watch but I think while it makes Americans sad, it makes the rest of us nervous. Yep, since the days of Jimmy things have went a bit....
