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ours. In July 1976, President Carter said: “I consider the foremost responsibility of any President to be the guaranteeing of our nation’s security ... I would be deeply committed to that proposition.” Despite these words and the steady growth of Soviet influence around the world. President Carter cut $38 billion from President Ford’s projected defense budgets; delayed the MX missile at least four years; cancelled the B-l bomber; cut planned naval shipbuilding in half. These and other actions and nonactions led former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to comment in December 1978: “Things are as bad for the West as they could possibly be and they are getting worse. The Europeans have to deal with the weakest American Administration in my lifetime.”
3. Since Mr. Carter became President, the median price of a new home has risen 49 percent. The number of American families who can afford to buy one has dropped from 27 percent to less than 5 percent.
4. Remember Mr. Carter’s promise to balance the Federal budget? After almost four years. Federal spending has increased $231 billion, Federal taxes increased $246 billion, and the National Debt increased $300 billion. This year’s - his last of four -
94.6%