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Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by ls612 »

hylaride wrote: post #50

One could argue he set the stage for the 1980s economic boom by making short term sacrifices that cost him re-election. It was his administration that did market-oriented deregulation around airlines and trucking industries (meaning you didn't need to have a licence to ship goods across state lines and go through monopoly trucking companies to get your goods to market) as well as appointed Paul Volcker as Fed chair w…

Reagan’s first 2 and a half years also were setting the stage for the growth of the 80s and 90s by taming inflation with very high interest rates and a painful recession. Reagan would have lost by a lot if his gamble hadn’t paid off but instead by 1984 strong growth had begun and he won in a landslide.

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by irrelative »

macinjosh wrote: post #107
tonymet wrote: post #89

Carter deregulated the beer & airline industries

And now flying is the worst consumer experience of them all and Budweiser is made out of rice. Is this winning?

Flying is incredibly less expensive largely due to deregulation, and Budweiser has always been brewed with rice. So, yes, this is winning.

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by UncleOxidant »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #56
hylaride wrote: post #50

One could argue he set the stage for the 1980s economic boom by making short term sacrifices that cost him re-election. It was his administration that did market-oriented deregulation around airlines and trucking industries (meaning you didn't need to have a licence to ship goods across state lines and go through monopoly trucking companies to get your goods to market) as well as appointed Paul Volcker as Fed chair w…

I’m really worried that we just elected a president who clearly fixates on short term gains rather than long term planning. Biden did not mess that up, even if he is a one term president like Carter. It is nice to have adults in control, even if that is increasingly politically untenable.

When you compare Carter with the guy who's going to take office next month it shows how far we've fallen as a country. The previous era was already passing since about 2016, but with the death of Carter it seems like that era has died with him and it just feels very depressing.

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by yyyk »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #54
siltcakes wrote: post #15

Carter was the most pro-Palestinian president of the 20th century. It's worth reading his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid

He was the first American president to broker a serious Middle East peace agreement between Israel and a Middle Eastern nation (Egypt) - the Camp David Accord.

Ironically a result of rejecting Carter's proposal. Carter wanted a general ME conference. When Sadat heard of it, he decided it couldn't lead to peace as extremist elements would force an Arab consensus over the most radical position. So he set up the flight to Jerusalem and the rest is history.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5047042,00.html

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by lelandfe »

benatkin wrote: post #116
neom wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the CEO of Habitat for Humanity says in the video, it was for marketing, not the houses he literally built. "I don't think anyone would have hear of Habitat for Humanity If President and Mrs. Carter hadn't gotten on that bus in 1984" - They've since gone on to build over 800,000 homes - he could have easily not gotten behind them in such an earnest way year over year.

And the video has 16 upvotes on YouTube? Not that I wish it had more, because Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities. https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-broo...

Sadly, things in the 80's tended to get few upvotes on YouTube. But Carter really was the real deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work...

> Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities

Habitat-NYC is an independent affiliate, with its own CEO and everything.

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by aspenmayer »

stopping wrote: post #86
madihaa wrote: post #43

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This is a duplicate of the following reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hp5r20/comment/m...

Thanks for calling this out, as it is almost certainly against HN guidelines to karma farm or post other's comments as your own. Not the first time either, as I've seen people post links that were in OP as comments as if they weren't in the OP, as well as have seen people steal comments from substack articles and post them as their own on the HN submission of the substack.

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by RealityVoid »

wahisurf wrote: post #115
mitemte wrote: post #111

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Look at U.S. factories now vs the 1980s - way fewer workers but making more stuff. Yeah, companies moved jobs overseas, but they also went big on automation to boost efficiency. That's a huge reason factory jobs disappeared. As for COVID origins, let's not perpetuate unproven theories.

Nothing unproven about covid coming out of wuhan lab House panel concludes that COVID-19 pandemic came from a lab leak https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-conclude... Two-thirds of Americans believe that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab in China https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/45389-americans-b... also, Harvard Business Review agreed that "some U.S. regions lost manufacturing jobs a…

The house panel report is profoundly flawed and used as a political piece more than as a means of real inquiry.

And the fact a lot of people from the US believe it originated from the lab doesn't really make it true. See how many people believe you didn't go on the moon or that 9/11 was an inside job.

It _could_ have originated from the lab, it's a distinct possibility, but there is no concrete proof. We do know it's not created using a gene drive though.

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by 51Cards »

FillardMillmore wrote: post #53

My favorite Carter story was when he was out on a fishing boat and there was a swamp rabbit that aggressively approached his boat. Carter used his paddle to shoo it away. He told his advisers about it, but they didn't believe him. But a White House photographer was taking pictures of the trip at the time and captured the rabbit in the picture. Of course, the press blew it out of proportion and used it to mock/attack…

I hadn't heard about this and thought "swamp rabbit" was some catch term for alligator. Nope! It was actually a rabbit! Thanks for sharing this.

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by adamtaylor_13 »

bb88 wrote: post #123
briandear wrote: post #106

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Terrible. He should have resigned, but was too proud to. But also, you know, this isn't a left/right issue. It's mostly one of power. There's a republican member of congress right now that's in a retirement home and hasn't been in congress since July. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/kay-granger-c...

WTF… how is this even legal?

Re: Jimmy Carter has died

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Post by benatkin »

lelandfe wrote: post #135
benatkin wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the video has 16 upvotes on YouTube? Not that I wish it had more, because Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities. https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-broo...

Sadly, things in the 80's tended to get few upvotes on YouTube. But Carter really was the real deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work... > Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities Habitat-NYC is an independent affiliate, with its own CEO and everything.

If I was running a charity like that, I would try to curate the main YouTube account and make it so practically everything gets at least hundreds of likes.
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