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[ASA_DFW]

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http://tinyurl.com/6qhh99

 

[Donald]

What they are eluding to, re-regulation.

 

[Draginass]

If anyone is waiting for the government to do something, you might as well look for a new job. The unbelievable incompetence of the Bush regime will continue unabated into January 09. By that time the recession will be hitting full force and oil will be $150-180 and inflation 6% and rising. Oh, and Bush's illegal alien friends are going to be collecting unemployment and having more babies at US citizens' expense.

Obama is going to inherit a nation in desperate condition.

I think history will judge Bush as even more incompetent that Jimmy Carter.

 

[MCDU]

Bush has to be the worst president ever. He makes Carter look good. We spend billions overseas in our quest to dominate the world stage. If we really cared we would be in Darfour. The people in government are a bunch of hypocrites. Like Saudia Arabia being a friend and Cuba being our enemy? Saudia Arabia is alot more restrictive. At least in Cuba you can get laid and sip some rum. There is a reason why so many people overseas do not like the USA.
Bush is a perfect example why.

Rant over
Marty

 

[Donald]

Everything was going great until The Dems took over congress. Besides you guys better hope Democracy never takes hold in Iraq. If it does, we will be saying "Bush was right". Reagan was heavily ridiculed during his term and so was Lincoln.

 

[ip241au]

Donald "Everything was going great until The Dems took over congress. Besides you guys better hope Democracy never takes hold in Iraq. If it does, we will be saying "Bush was right". Reagan was heavily ridiculed during his term and so was Lincoln.'


What he said

 

[Jmoney]

If anyone is waiting for the government to do something, you might as well look for a new job. The unbelievable incompetence of the Bush regime will continue unabated into January 09. By that time the recession will be hitting full force and oil will be $150-180 and inflation 6% and rising. Oh, and Bush's illegal alien friends are going to be collecting unemployment and having more babies at US citizens' expense.

Obama is going to inherit a nation in desperate condition.

I think history will judge Bush as even more incompetent that Jimmy Carter.

If you think this is bad-you probably were not around for Carter.....

Jimmy screwed the economy from one end to the other-using very similar economic polices that your pal Obama wants to use......How soon people forget.

-Here are a couple of examples:

-Carter de-regulated the airlines-average the profits and losses of all airlines since that date-you will come up with a cumulative loss exceeding 13 billion dollars. Totally DESTROYED this industry.
-Crazy inflation rate-you would have been lucky to get a home mortgage for 17 % interest.
-Gas prices bad now? How about Carter's price controls???? He imposed arbitrary price controls on wholesalers and retailers. Guess what happened? These guys just stopped selling the stuff and went out of business. It really doesn't matter what the sign out front of stations says when the tanks are empty all around town. That was a GENUINE crisis!

-People bitch about high costs and inflation, but you can still get gas, and you can get mortgages in the single-digit range.

-Throw in the terrorists and Obama will absolutely ruin this place!! As soon as he pulls our troops out of Iraq, Iran will move right in-the very next day. When that happens-Israel will nuke the hell out of the whole place and the real fun begins! Take that to the bank.

-Bush worse than Carter? My happy pink butt!!!

-You really want worse-just vote Obama
(Of course this scenario could really clean up the middle east-might just be better off when the radioactivity dies down a bit!)

 

[jmreii]

If you think this is bad-you probably were not around for Carter.....

Jimmy screwed the economy from one end to the other-using very similar economic polices that your pal Obama wants to use......How soon people forget.

-Here are a couple of examples:

-Carter de-regulated the airlines-average the profits and losses of all airlines since that date-you will come up with a cumulative loss exceeding 13 billion dollars. Totally DESTROYED this industry.
-Crazy inflation rate-you would have been lucky to get a home mortgage for 17 % interest.
-Gas prices bad now? How about Carter's price controls???? He imposed arbitrary price controls on wholesalers and retailers. Guess what happened? These guys just stopped selling the stuff and went out of business. It really doesn't matter what the sign out front of stations says when the tanks are empty all around town. That was a GENUINE crisis!

-People bitch about high costs and inflation, but you can still get gas, and you can get mortgages in the single-digit range.

-Throw in the terrorists and Obama will absolutely ruin this place!! As soon as he pulls our troops out of Iraq, Iran will move right in-the very next day. When that happens-Israel will nuke the hell out of the whole place and the real fun begins! Take that to the bank.

-Bush worse than Carter? My happy pink butt!!!

-You really want worse-just vote Obama
(Of course this scenario could really clean up the middle east-might just be better off when the radioactivity dies down a bit!)

I was around for carter, and at least the chinese were not saying who's your daddy because of all the money you borrowed and cannot pay back. aka home mortages and paying off debt.

 

[Traderd]

If you think this is bad-you probably were not around for Carter.....

Jimmy screwed the economy from one end to the other-using very similar economic polices that your pal Obama wants to use......How soon people forget.

-Here are a couple of examples:

-Carter de-regulated the airlines-average the profits and losses of all airlines since that date-you will come up with a cumulative loss exceeding 13 billion dollars. Totally DESTROYED this industry.
-Crazy inflation rate-you would have been lucky to get a home mortgage for 17 % interest.
-Gas prices bad now? How about Carter's price controls???? He imposed arbitrary price controls on wholesalers and retailers. Guess what happened? These guys just stopped selling the stuff and went out of business. It really doesn't matter what the sign out front of stations says when the tanks are empty all around town. That was a GENUINE crisis!

-People bitch about high costs and inflation, but you can still get gas, and you can get mortgages in the single-digit range.

-Throw in the terrorists and Obama will absolutely ruin this place!! As soon as he pulls our troops out of Iraq, Iran will move right in-the very next day. When that happens-Israel will nuke the hell out of the whole place and the real fun begins! Take that to the bank.

-Bush worse than Carter? My happy pink butt!!!

-You really want worse-just vote Obama
(Of course this scenario could really clean up the middle east-might just be better off when the radioactivity dies down a bit!)

I believe the price controls you reference were imposed by the Nixon administration. August 15, 1971.

The rate of inflation was less than 3% when the controls were implemented. The controls were mostly gone by April of 1974 and the rate of inflation hit about 13% in December of 1974. The rate was around 5% when Carter took office, and hit a high of about 14% in March 1980. Carter held office from 1977 - 1981.

Hard to imagine Nixon being a price control initiator but that is the case. It is my understanding that Carter did not impose wage or price controls.

 

[gutshotdraw]

So, what does everybody think about this article?

What do I think? I think if Clinton hadn't vetoed the ANWR drilling bill 10 years ago, we'd have an additional ONE MILLION BARRELS of oil PER DAY in the U.S. inventory now and oil prices would be south of $70 per barrel.

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BUILD NUKES, BUILD THEM NOW

DIG COAL, DIG IT NOW

BUILD SOLAR, BUILD THEM NOW

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