January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

probably accomplished this by slashing military spending to nothing, which is
why a few radical students in Iran were able to humiliate us, a country of 200
million people, with an impotent military thanks to President Carter's neglect.
Also, he left office with double digit inflation, double digit interest rates
and extremely high unemployement---double the rate President Bush is often
criticized for. He was a nice man, but in way over his head. Republican Reagan
got us into a huge deficit by rebuilding our military into the strongest and
best in world history, which ended the cold war and restored our stature. By
cutting taxes, he also rebuilt our economy into a model for the rest of the
world to strive for. Bill Clinton was a very likable man and still is. His
personal baggage, disloyalty to his marriage and lies under oath tarnish his
legacy. Also, he too neglected and seemed to hate the military---the men and
women who risk their lives to protect us. But to his credit, he did get the
budget under control and presided over a huge economic expansion. Granted, guys
like Bill Gates did more than the President to stimulate and grow the economy,
but Clinton's policies didn't hurt. He had his good and bad points. Right now,
after the joke campaigns by Gore and especially Kerry, and the lopsided losses
by guys like Mondale and Dukakis, the Democrats can use a centerist candidate
again. Face it---as popular as Clinton was and with his high approval rating,
even though he had scandal, his VP, Gore, should have easily defeated Bush in
2000. Instead, he barely won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote,
because he's basically a germ. |
|12/1/04 10:34:35 AM|Kent|L.H. Ca||kentallenetc.||||10|Yes, things were
relatively good under Reagan but personally, it was a hard time for me, so
everyone didn't prosper at that time.Acutally, the military budgets
started to increase in the last two years of Carter's term as we had emergencies
in both Iran and a potential conflict with the Soviets, who had invaded
Afghanistan and it was Carter who brought back draft registration of our young
men after Ford had cancelled the process after the end of Vietnam. Carter had
economic problems, such as high inflation as well as the hostage crisis that led
to his defeat for re-election.Carter had allowed the Shah of Iran to
come to the U.S. for cancer treatment, a humanitarian effort to help a long time
U.S. friend and this is what triggered the hostage takeover and although he was
ineffective in getting their release, under Reagan, we had hostages also taken
by forces friendly to Iran but only nine of them instead of sixty or so under
Carter and these nine were held for a longer period than those under Carter.
Reagan got their release by selling military arms to Iran, an enemy of the U.S,
with some of the money being funneled to the Contra rebels of Nicaragua, who had
their funding cutoff by congress. Remember Iran-Contra? If Carter had done
this, he would have been run out of Washington D.C. on a rail.Reagan
seemed like a pleasant likeble person and he, like Clinton, could get away with
certain things because of this. Face it, most of the time the people will not
be too concerned about scandal if the economy seems to be going well. |
|12/1/04 10:35:46 AM|Massimo da Pisa|Roma||4||||10|You guys are just missing the
point ! Bill Clinton is as wilt as Muhammad Ali'... What else to say ? Who cares
about everything else ?Shaq next president !|
|12/1/04 10:38:56 AM|Massimo da Pisa|Roma||4||||10|I meant who cares about
anything else, not everything else !|
|12/1/04 10:43:30 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Any thoughts
on Jirov verses Moorer? They are two former world champions. Jirov, a
champ at crusierweight, virtually retired hot prospect Joe Mesi and gave James
Toney the fight of his life in one of the best fights of 2003. Jirov is a tough
southpaw who always comes to fight.Moorer, who got kayoed in one round
by David Tua and I think, without looking up his record, also has another recent
loss, once beat a near in prime Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight title, not
the Holyfield who lost again recently to Larry Donald. Moorer is trying to make
a comeback. |