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#82I wasn’t alive for Carter’s presidency, so can someone explain how his handling of the hostages in Iran was positive at all for the United States? To me as an American even this many years later and as a young person who didn’t see it, ending your presidency while another nation holds your citizens seems extremely embarrassing. And all I see is extreme praise of the man. I’d honestly like to see some discussion here.
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#83One 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.
What's frustrating is that a few years ago a recession was predicted, and we avoided that. But no one seems to have even mentioned it during the election. Am I just misremembering this? At least in the tech sector, lots of layoffs seemed to be attributed to the coming downturn.
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#85https://www.cfr.org/conference-calls/conversation-jimmy-cart... Conversation, part of the Council on Foreign Relations' History Makers series.
From May of 2012, as the dateline's somewhat obscure there.
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#87The Carter Center is on the verge of eradicating Guinea worm disease, a hideous illness that predominantly afflicts the poor. I hope other former Presidents can use their political leverage to help people in similar ways.
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#88Looking back, to me he was a much better president then people believed in the 80s. I believe if he got re-elected in 1980, the US would be in a much better place. One thing, it could be argued real work on Climate Change would have begun in 1981 as opposed to where we are now, which is just watching the average probably blowing past 3C in around 70 years from now. For his loss in 1980, I still blame Kennedy. RIP, he…
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Jimmy Carter is the man who put in precision guided munitions and stealth technology. Without Carter's controversial budget moves we would not have the sort of weapons that mince a Soviet army in days.
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#89Carter deregulated the beer & airline industries
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#90If you didn't follow what Jimmy Carter did after his presidency, this short habitat for humanity vignette highlights it well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajWLdawnCPU (11 mins)
Hard for me to draw inspiration from that, at least compared to Al Gore. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-f...
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.