Jimmy Carter RIP

[Sarek]

Thank you for your service.

RIP Mr. President.

 

[Hardline]

Habitat for Humanity.

 

[triplets_93]

Camp David Accords

 

[triplets_93]

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/12/29/tributes-late-president-jimmy-carter/2731735508431/

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Rip Mr. President.

 

[Runwildboys]

RIP

 

[darthseinfeld]

Died at 100 years old

Is he the 1st president to hit triple digits?

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Did pretty good for a peanut farmer, RIP

 

[Runwildboys]

Did pretty good for a peanut farmer, RIP

Peanuts, in moderation, are good for you!

 

[Creeper]

Just out of curiosity, how many here were old enough to experience the Jimmy Carter years as president? I was 24 when he took office and working in NYC.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Just out of curiosity, how many here were old enough to experience the Jimmy Carter years as president? I was 24 when he took office and working in NYC.

I was 13 years old when he took office

 

[Tabascocat]

Just out of curiosity, how many here were old enough to experience the Jimmy Carter years as president? I was 24 when he took office and working in NYC.

I barely remember him being in office, I was pretty young. My presidential memories start with Reagan.

 

[Plankton]

Died at 100 years old

Is he the 1st president to hit triple digits?

Taft was over 300 pounds.

Oh, you meant years. j/k

RIP to a man who gave his life to service for this country. Naval Academy graduate, Governor of Georgia, President of the United States, founded the Carter Center, and was the face of Habitat for Humanity. While his impact as President can be certainly debated, his love of this country and his service in honor of it cannot. RIP for a long, full and extraordinary life.

 

[DallasEast]

Just out of curiosity, how many here were old enough to experience the Jimmy Carter years as president? I was 24 when he took office and working in NYC.

12 for me.

 

[Creeper]

12 for me.

I asked because I suspected most people only know of Jimmy Carter, the president, from what they have heard or read. I have to tell you , it was a crazy time in America. So much was going on in such a short period.

We had a commercial loan application that ran as a batch job every night. One morning I got called because it failed to run. I was a programmer/analyst at my first real job. After looking at the code and JCL I realized there was a reasonability check in the system to ensure when the prime rate for the day was entered, it was reasonable. The original programmers thought beyond 20% had to be an input error so they programmed the system to shut down if the rate was higher than that. Some customers were charged prime rate + an additional percentage so it triggered the system shut down. This happened at the end of Carter's only term in office. Inflation was crazy back then. The prime lending rate actually hit 20%!

 

[DallasEast]

oy vey!

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[VaqueroTD]

Secret of long life…. Build houses daily and go to church every Sunday.

 

[CyberB0b]

I asked because I suspected most people only know of Jimmy Carter, the president, from what they have heard or read. I have to tell you , it was a crazy time in America. So much was going on in such a short period.

We had a commercial loan application that ran as a batch job every night. One morning I got called because it failed to run. I was a programmer/analyst at my first real job. After looking at the code and JCL I realized there was a reasonability check in the system to ensure when the prime rate for the day was entered, it was reasonable. The original programmers thought beyond 20% had to be an input error so they programmed the system to shut down if the rate was higher than that. Some customers were charged prime rate + an additional percentage so it triggered the system shut down. This happened at the end of Carter's only term in office. Inflation was crazy back then. The prime lending rate actually hit 20%!

I was born during the Reagan administration. My dad told me that he got a mortgage for 13% and thought it was a steal back then.

 

[zrinkill]

Great kind man ........ RIP

 

[Creeper]

I was born during the Reagan administration. My dad told me that he got a mortgage for 13% and thought it was a steal back then.

Yes! Mortgages were going for about 15% at one time. Imagine taking a mortgage at that rate! It started the adjustable rate mortgage craze. My company was giving out 15% pay increases every 6 months to keep employees even with inflation! That part was pretty good. I laugh when people today complain about 7% mortgages. That was not unusual in the 20th century. We got accustomed to artificially low rates after the 2007 collapse.