First, there was this billboard featuring President George W. Bush:
Then came, a great improvement:
Now, Hot Air reports that this billboard has been seen in Ennis, Texas:
Some readers will be too young to remember the presidency of Jimmy Carter. I was fortunate to immigrate to the United States in the first year of President Reagan’s first term.
But the billboard has a point. Jimmy Carter was one of the worst presidents we have ever had and certainly the worst in recent history. Inflation, interest rates and unemployment all reached record highs during his presidency. Gasoline shortages meant waiting in long lines to fill up your car, kind of like today in Florida after a hurricane except this was nationwide and there was no natural disaster causing the shortage. The ayatollahs took over in Iran and their stooges held the American embassy staff hostage for more than a year. The Soviet Union continued its expansion peaking with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Western Europe had large a anti-American, pro-disarmament movement.
So how do President Obama’s “accomplishments” compare to Jimmy Carter’s? Well, there is Obamacare, the biggest social legislation in more than forty years that, unless repealed, will bankrupt us. We have had a serious recession, record job losses, the bottom has fallen out of the housing market and American entrepreneurs still can’t get banks to lend to them. The government still runs some large banks, AIG and General Motors. Obama has appeased Iran for more than a year which has emboldened the Iranian government in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Obama flirts with the dictators of Iran, North Korea and Venezuela, to name a few, but treats the Israeli prime minister, one of our strongest allies in the world, like he is the enemy. Obama still has plenty of other bad ideas that he wants to implement including cap-and-trade legislation that would cripple the American economy further. Finally, starting with the stimulus, Obama has put us on course of permanent trillion dollar deficits. Prior to the Obama administration, large government spending was measured in billions. Obama has made the term “trillion” commonplace. Taxes and government borrowing are out of control.
So yes, maybe we miss Jimmy Carter. At least, today we know that he was gone after one term and was succeeded by a president who set America on a course of almost thirty years of less government regulation and greater freedom and who ended the Cold War by demolishing the Soviet Union and freeing hundreds of millions of people from the slavery of communism without firing a shot.
We need to work toward an even larger change away from Obama’s socialism and back towards the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that America was founded on in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
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