Excellent LTTE in Montgomery Advertiser, AL "Carter took long-term view"

[jody]

Carter took long-term view

President Carter, the last president with true democratic values, told the nation of his plans in a speech from the Oval Office in 1978. His plans were to cut our oil consumption in half by the end of the 1980s and to cut imports from Saudi Arabia to its bare minimum. Also he made plans to subsidize and encourage alternative energies.

He was a president with long-term goals, not quick fixes, as in borrowing for tax cuts. He would never unnecessarily borrow for future generations to pay.

Instead of his goals being carried out, we wound up with 25 years of neo-conservative economics, an undemocratic system of governing that dislikes labor unless it's cheap labor and gives big corporations and the wealthy special tax privileges.

We were much better off with the trickle-down effect from labor unions than the trickle-down effect of supply-side economics.

Just think of the different world we would be living in today if Carter had not been cheated out of his second term by people in the CIA making deals to hold the Iranian hostages until after the election. We would be buying little or no oil from the Middle East and the hijackers of 9/11 would not have blamed us for supporting the corrupt kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Elwyn Hudson Jr.
Gardendale

[Tsiyu]

1. Carter would have made an impact

with two terms, but he wasn't evil; therefor he was hated by the violent, lying Fascists in America, who would elect Satan if he promised them a war and tax cuts.

Renewable energy, foreign policy based on "helping our neighbor" and a policy of peace, living up to our promises (like the agreement with Panama over the canal? Remember that one?) just do not appeal to the violent, greedy, hate-filled Repukes...

[Inland]

2. Perspective gets shorter and shorter as energy disaster looms closer

Now we have Bush, who can't manage to see past this summer's price at the pump.

No strategy except to let the oil production decline, prices rise and the owners of scarce resources--mostly overseas, but also Bush, Cheney, and their cronies here--make a windfall mint while the sheer expense cuts consumption, disrupts the economy, and gives the Japanese the incentive to create efficient technologies they can sell to us for the money we don't have.

[BamaLefty]

3. Awesome LTTE.

Mr. Hudson rocks. :headbang: