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Cannonpointer » 18 Feb 2014 3:35 pm » wrote: You're being a little hard on the gipper there, junior.

But at least you are not trying your usual lie about Carter's economy. He handed off a growing, recovering economy - about 3% YOY growth, if recollection serves.

Let's go back to 1982, in many ways the bleakest year since the Depression. The economy had emerged severely damaged by the stagflation of the 1970s. Americans' confidence, both in government and in the economy, had reached a low ebb in 1980. Many felt our best years lay behind us.

On the nations' campuses and even in some of its boardrooms, people were talking about capitalism as a failed system.

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/article ... _boom.html