[Frantzie]

Welcome back Jimmy Carter except Obama is far far worse.

[lakertaker]

Actually, Ford was president in 1976. Carter didn’t assume office till 1977

[Frantzie]

Oregon is supposedly even worse with:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123998769476529637.html

CA 11.2%
NC 10.8% (loaded with illegal aliens too)
OR 12.1% !!
MI 12.6%!! (Granholm is O’s socialist gal)

[BookmanTheJanitor]

CA had an awesome governor back then....BWHAHAHAHA...almost as liberal as the one CA has now.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Jerry Ford. Carter wasn’t sworn in until noon on January 20, 1977.

[Haddit]

There is one bright spot (sarc), we had 4,400 new government employees and 2,200 educational and health employees added in the last 2 months.

[hunter112]

The country was still suffering from the first oil price shock in 1973, the malaise from Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War. We could argue that Korea was a draw, but we couldn't say that as the last helicopters pulled people from the roof of the embassy in Saigon.

Gerald Ford actually took steps to deal with the stagflation, I still have the WIN button he sent me! He left Jimmy Carter with a pretty good economy, and it was Carter's bungling of foreign affairs that dragged us back into the malaise in 1980. I'm confident that Zero will repeat the pattern.

[dfwgator]

who was President in 1976?

Uhhh, Jerry Ford.