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Originally Posted by RandyRandy
I don't know how old you are, but the Carter years were the worst. Double-digit unemployment and interest rates. Terrible inflation. And I still remember my father cursing until he could find a gas station that actually had gas. That's right, there was gas-rationing, with the green, yellow and red flags at gas stations.
I'm 51 and I remember that like it was yesterday.
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Carter certainly wasnt a great president but most of what you listed started in the Nixon admin. We were already in a deep recession and the oil embargo began in 1973 due to Nixon supplying arms to Israel during the Yom Kippur War.