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The last president who initiated a controlled burn quickly got voted out of office and is widely remembered as a bad president, while his successor got to take

The last president who initiated a controlled burn quickly got voted out of office and is widely remembered as a bad president, while his successor got to take credit for the regrowth. Any politician who hears your proposal would agree in principle, but in the back of their head they would be thinking "do I want to end up like Carter?"

twblalock 4y ago
That's not what Carter did. He inherited a bad economy from Ford and Nixon and failed to fix it. We expect our presidents to fix problems whether they caused them or not. At the end of 8+ years of a bad economy, oil embargoes, and leadership that conveyed a depressing message for the country's future prospects, the voters were rightly displeased with Carter.
- jjoonathan 4y ago
  Remind me, who installed Volker again? Who cranked the interest rates? Who got voted out of office because they finally cranked the interest rates high enough to tame inflation?
JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? The term limit is there to press people and to make them think that when it’s all over they look back and should be proud of something they have done, not a mere “the pollsters told me to do X and I did X” Unless you do whatever you want being POTUS sounds like a hellhole job. All day building coalitions and having meetings , being mostly sedentary, no privacy, constant assassination risk, constant attacks…and at the end of the day a bunch of pollsters are your boss. You get to ride in AF1 but that’s not unlike a Boeing Business Jet and there are some also available for private charter
- lukas099 4y ago
  > Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? A president must choose their battles and use their political capital wisely, lest they burn it all and are unable to accomplish anything else for the remainder of their term.

twblalock 4y ago

That's not what Carter did. He inherited a bad economy from Ford and Nixon and failed to fix it. We expect our presidents to fix problems whether they caused them or not. At the end of 8+ years of a bad economy, oil embargoes, and leadership that conveyed a depressing message for the country's future prospects, the voters were rightly displeased with Carter.

jjoonathan 4y ago
Remind me, who installed Volker again? Who cranked the interest rates? Who got voted out of office because they finally cranked the interest rates high enough to tame inflation?

JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago

Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? The term limit is there to press people and to make them think that when it’s all over they look back and should be proud of something they have done, not a mere “the pollsters told me to do X and I did X” Unless you do whatever you want being POTUS sounds like a hellhole job. All day building coalitions and having meetings , being mostly sedentary, no privacy, constant assassination risk, constant attacks…and at the end of the day a bunch of pollsters are your boss. You get to ride in AF1 but that’s not unlike a Boeing Business Jet and there are some also available for private charter

lukas099 4y ago
> Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? A president must choose their battles and use their political capital wisely, lest they burn it all and are unable to accomplish anything else for the remainder of their term.