Text 18280, 75 rader
Skriven 2006-03-12 21:12:00 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS CASSELL
Ärende: Truth !
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Hello Ross,

>LL>And BTW, Americans had jobs during the Carter admistration.
>LL>Good jobs.  Quality jobs.  Quite unlike what we have today.

>EH>This has *GOT* to be a troll.

RC>Low National Self-esteem.

No wars anywhere.  People were happy.  Especially soldiers.
And 52 Americans returning from Iran.

RC>Gas lines

Only for a short period of time.  Louisiana governor
Edwin Edwards easily solved the problem of long gas lines
by suggesting service stations place a white garbage bag
in front of gas pumps if they had gas, and a black garbage
bag in front of gas pumps if they had no gas.  Within a
few days, all gas stations had gas and there were no long
gas lines anywhere.

RC>Disco

The BeeGees.  One of the greatest music groups of all time.

RC>Runaway Inflation

People had jobs, and benefits to go along with those jobs.
Inflation is a relative term.  If folks do not have jobs,
nothing else really matters.  IOW, if the price of gas costs
two dollars a gallon and folks have the money to pay for the
gas, everything is fine.  But if gas is 25 cents per gallon
and folks do not have the money to pay for the gas, nothing
is fine.

RC>High unemployment

Again, that is a relative term.  In a mobile environment,
high unemployment will be the result.  That does not mean
that folks do not have jobs.  When an individual moves
from one job to take a better job, he/she is unemployed
for a short duration.

Zero unemployment is the worst condition there can be,
since unemployment benefits are no longer available, as
well as there being a lack of job opportunities.

Hyper unemployment is also a bad condition.  But hyper
unemployment is not the same thing as high unemployment.
The Great Depression of the 1930's is an example of
hyper unemployment.

RC>Yeah its a troll.

During the Carter years, everybody had jobs.
During the Reagan years, those same folks had no jobs.

The unemployment rate in south Louisiana was officially over 25%
in 1985, during the Reagan years.  The real unemployment rate was
much higher.  Men in their 50's and 60's were painting houses and
mowing lawns, just to pay their bills.  Most of them lost their
houses not being able to pay their morgtage notes.

The high unemployment rate during the Carter years was a good thing.
The hyper unemployment rate during the Reagan years was a bad thing.

Yeah.  Reagan was a fine president.  For the wealthy.

--Lee


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