May I take issue with this description of post-Reagan America? " [I]t takes two full-time workers to get where a single paycheck could in 1980." I would hazard that for many, if not most American families, two incomes leaves them behind where they would have been in 1975. Although hardly the monster Reagan was, Jimmy Carter, with his wel…
May I take issue with this description of post-Reagan America? " [I]t takes two full-time workers to get where a single paycheck could in 1980." I would hazard that for many, if not most American families, two incomes leaves them behind where they would have been in 1975. Although hardly the monster Reagan was, Jimmy Carter, with his well-intentioned push to deregulate, bears some blame for the fix we're in.
That is true William. In 1964 I was an E-4, I owned, not rented a home, granted a 2 br rambler with carport but a a home, a 1965 Mustang a wife and two children all on the pay of an E-4.
Today an E-4 has trouble making a car payment, and has to live in some cheap trailer or motel.
base housing if he is lucky.
I was married 15 years, three children and we never suffered or lacked, good Xmas even, and she never worked, nor had to . She raised the kids while I was off, half the time, in Sam's service in the great adventure.
However saying Jimmy Carter has some blame for the fix we are in, is way off the mark. This shit all started with Reagan. Carter put solar Panels on the roof, Reagan took them down.
Yes Mr. Politt Carter deregulated banks, credit cards, credit unions, airlines, trucking. He had very limited understanding of the economy. But I still admire him as one of the truly good Presidents of my life time. A truly honorable, courageous, well-meaning, admirable human being.
Please, I meant no disparagement of Jimmy Carter the man. He was probably the most exemplary human being to occupy the oval office since Lincoln, but as for his deregulation.... What is it they say is paved with good intentions?
May I take issue with this description of post-Reagan America? " [I]t takes two full-time workers to get where a single paycheck could in 1980." I would hazard that for many, if not most American families, two incomes leaves them behind where they would have been in 1975. Although hardly the monster Reagan was, Jimmy Carter, with his well-intentioned push to deregulate, bears some blame for the fix we're in.
That is true William. In 1964 I was an E-4, I owned, not rented a home, granted a 2 br rambler with carport but a a home, a 1965 Mustang a wife and two children all on the pay of an E-4.
Today an E-4 has trouble making a car payment, and has to live in some cheap trailer or motel.
base housing if he is lucky.
I was married 15 years, three children and we never suffered or lacked, good Xmas even, and she never worked, nor had to . She raised the kids while I was off, half the time, in Sam's service in the great adventure.
However saying Jimmy Carter has some blame for the fix we are in, is way off the mark. This shit all started with Reagan. Carter put solar Panels on the roof, Reagan took them down.
Yes Mr. Politt Carter deregulated banks, credit cards, credit unions, airlines, trucking. He had very limited understanding of the economy. But I still admire him as one of the truly good Presidents of my life time. A truly honorable, courageous, well-meaning, admirable human being.
Please, I meant no disparagement of Jimmy Carter the man. He was probably the most exemplary human being to occupy the oval office since Lincoln, but as for his deregulation.... What is it they say is paved with good intentions?