THAT Jimmy Carter?
Well, Mr. Carter, I think senility has finally overtaken you.
Eight years ago, we had a Republican House of Representatives and a Republican Senate that had dragged ex-Prez Bill Clinton (D) kicking and screaming into a balanced budget. Do you remember "We can balance it in ten years," "We can balance it in seven years," "We might be able to balance it in eight years," "We can probably balance it in five years?"
Eight years ago, the United States had not been attacked by Islamic terrorists under the direction of Usama bin Laden - who Clinton had refused to take into custody on three occasions, and who was in our sniper's sights on at least one occasion when Clinton was too busy playing golf to be bothered with giving the order to fire.
Eight years ago, the stock market (DJIA) closed at 8900 on September 18, 2001. Prior to the implementation of the Bush tax cuts, the market dipped to 7500 in October 2002. Since then, the Dow has been on a steady climb to high of 14,000 until the election season got into full swing in October 2007, and since then we have heard a steady drumbeat of "the failed economic policies of George W. Bush" from Democrat politicians and their willing accomplices in the media. Finally, the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac crises cratered the market this month.
And you started it, Jimmy! And Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank exacerbated these twin crises by blocking Republican attempts to reform these two corrupt entities.
I think it's past time for you to sit down and shut up, Jimmy.
This is the United States of America, and we are Americans! We will survive this current financial mess. After all, this is nothing compared to the Great Depression. We worked our way out of that, and we will work our way out of this little problem as well.
All we Americans ask - no, demand - is that government get out of our way!