Re: OT: Nice summary of the present


"Ken Dixon" <nsvmiami@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bill Barnes wrote:

And this is one indicator only. Some people here lived and worked
through both the Carter years and Reagan years. I'm not sure if you did
or not but to use the example of Jimmy Carter's presidency of anything
positive economically is a joke.

I was there and it sucked.

What did you expect after 10 years in Vietnam? The whole country was a mess
not only financially but in every other way., And that was not Carter's
fault. You don't remember how Gerald Ford tried to fix the whole mess by
handing out free WIN buttons? Fat lot of good that did.

Paul


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