After watching the extended funeral of former President Jimmy Carter it brought back many memories of his presidency. President Carter was the most religious, respectful and frugal president of my lifetime. He promised voters he would never lie to them. After leaving the Navy Carter returned to his family’s failing peanut farm, saved it from bankruptcy and expanded it into a very profitable operation. He then entered politics as a Georgia state senator, was later elected governor and then became the President. I remember his presidency and all of the problems that came with it. I remember him sitting down for an interview with Playboy magazine and being asked if he had ever lusted after a woman and giving his honest answer he said Yes! The public was outraged by his answer but what did you expect him to say? Other problems were quickly mounting and starting to snowball within his presidency. Russia invaded Afghanistan, Iranian students captured and held hostage our entire embassy. The U.S. experienced double digit inflation, gas prices rose dramatically and gas was rationed. Long lines resulted from the rationing and the voters never forgave him for this. To make things worse he authorized a clandestine mission to rescue our embassy personnel that ended in disaster. Bad events that happen during your presidency are always blamed on the President. President Carter was replaced after one term by Ronald Reagan and the Iranians released all hostages the day before Reagan took office.

The similarities between the Carter/Reagan exchange and the Biden/Trump swap were amazingly similar. A failed weak Democrat was replaced by their Republican counterpart with new ideas on what was best for the country. A failing economy was rejuvenated, gas prices came down and adversaries were warned. Weak feckless ideas were replaced by strong leadership. The Carter administration even gave away the Panama Canal! We now have to take it back.

Day one the Biden team torpedoed our oil and gas industry and then sold our strategic oil reserves to China. He canned the Keystone pipeline and opened our southern border to criminals, terrorists, gang members and child molesters. Again energy prices soared which caused inflation to rise dramatically. The Biden administration borrowed and printed billions to support illegal aliens, buying them cell phones, free service, free luxury hotel rooms, three meals a day and prepaid credit cards. All of this is happening while many of our veterans are homeless. Holes were cut into the border wall and supplies to build the wall were put up for sale at three to four cents on the dollar. Thirty seven death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life in defiance of our courts and ruthless Islamic terrorists were released from Gitmo. He is trying to ban gas hot water heaters and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The Biden administration also forced taxpayers to pay off the college loan debt for thousands of selected students.

As you can see once again another Republican administration will called upon to clean up the mess as history again repeats itself.