It was in California, in 1973 and 1979.
It was done a lot of ways. Sunday sales of gas were banned in some places. Other places had odd-even rationing, based on the last digit of the car’s license plate and the current date. Other places placed limits on how much gas could be purchased in a stop. Not that you’d want to make many stops, as these schemes sometimes corrsponded with gas lines.
This was in response to the Iranian crisis in 1979, with prices regulated. With all of the shocks in the oil industry since, we’ve never seen gas lines or rationing, thanks entirely to the price being totally deregulated under President Reagan.
Depends on how you define “recovery.” This link is over a year old, but outlines the problem of the “jobless recovery” quite well: WSJ Jobs: Tips For Your Job Search During Coronavirus..
BTW, a DJIA of 10,000 sounds nice, until you remember that it was around 12,000 in 2000, and now seems to be slowly oscillating in a very narrow trading range.
Small Business Owner: “What would Bush do for me?”
georgewbush.com: “President Bush will help small businesses in a number of ways, including by allowing them to band together to provide more affordable health care for their employees through Association Health Plans.”
American Worker: “What would Bush do for me?”
georgewbush.com: “President Bush will work to enable employees to choose paid time off as an alternative to overtime pay and to give employees the option of shifting work hours during a pay period.”
American Taxpayer: “What will Bush do for me?”
georgewbush.com: “President Bush will work to make the tax code simpler for taxpayers, encourage saving and investment, and improve the economy’s ability to create jobs and raise wages.”
College student: “What will Bush do for me?”
SDMB Chorus: “How dare you! Why should Bush, or any other President, do anything for you, especially since you’re in college?”
Please. If we wanted a Chief Executive who was aloof, disinterested in the well-being of Americans, and not overly concerned with helping ordinary people, George HW Bush would have won reelection in a landslide. True, the government doesn’t exist to please the whims of the electorate, but if a candidate asks for someone’s vote, they should at least explain what they’re going to do for those people.
Personally, I’ve looked through Bush’s campaign website, and four-year college doesn’t really seem to be talked about very much at all. His education section focuses on elementary school and community college. I don’t think helping college students is a very high priority for him.
Here you go:
As a college student, I’m sure you would be interested in this statement from the Selective Service System:
“both the President and the Secretary of Defense have stated on more than one occasion that there is no need for a draft for the War on Terrorism or any likely contingency, such as Iraq.”
Now that you know there’s absolutely no plans for a draft, the Bush Administration is also working on oppotunites for you. They are asking folks to fill the many draft board slots that have been empty since the last draft.
And why were the slots empty, aahala? Local Selective Service boards are required to be filled at all times, war or peace.
These slots weren’t empty since the last draft. Local boards have been around a long time. Many of them, though, were underfilled.
From the United States Code, law enacted in 1948.
Yes, I’m aware of the current trend of the stock market and I’m aware of the peak in 2000. It was overvalued and destined for a crash. You didn’t have to know anything about stocks to know it was coming. You just had to read the financial news source of your choosing. This is why I don’t blame Presidents for the event. It’s natural. If President Clinton had suddenly raised taxes or something similarly damaging to the market then he would bear the burden.
The term “jobless recovery” is political hyperbole used during an election cycle and doesn’t reflect the unemployment rate.
I see my mistake now.
Instead of saying the slots were empty I should have said many of the boards were underfilled.
That certainly puts a different spin on things.
Yeah, I guess we really can’t trust those wacky, wild-eyed, liberal partisans at the Wall Street Journal.
“Unemployment is at a historic low”? That’s hard to measure – because a lot of people just get so discouraged they drop out of the job market. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#Measuring_unemployment.) I do know more jobs have been lost during this administration than in any since Hoover’s. Why do you think they call it the “jobless recovery”? More jobs are being outsourced abroad, the middle class is shrinking, the gap between rich and poor is widening, the Admin keeps snipping more holes in our social safety nets and cutting benefits to veterans. That’s “stability”? Maybe, in the sense that the Great Depression was stable. And that’s just the beginning. If Bush wins he’s almost certainly going to lead us into more wars – maybe Iran – and he’ll probably revive the draft and that’s going to lead to all kinds of social disruptions which can cause economic disruptions. For some reason, wars nowadays don’t seem to stimulate the national economy the way they did in WWII. No, a second Bush term is not going to bring us a “stable economy”! Certainly not the kind that offers bright prospects for a college student or new graduate.
No sweat. The draft is always a subject sure to create confusion and heightened tensions on this board.
Unemployment is not at a historic low:
You can link whatever internet site you want, 6% is considered a very low unemployment rate. There is no discussion about this number. You can compare this to any country in the world or any point in US history. That’s the reality of the number. It’s not hard to verify. You can go to any mall or restaurant and see it full of people. You can see it in new housing construction. It’s all around you. I’ve lived through double digit inflation, and double digit unemployment. We are currently doing well. Trying to infer this economy is bad is beyond hyperbole. Its a pure lie.
** uh huh, everybody I know enjoys living indoors and eating food. My friends have lost jobs and gotten new jobs. The only way you can “drop out” is to scroung off someone else. Anybody who say’s they’ve dropped out was never “in”. If you can’t get a job in this country you are unemployable. **
Yes, your cite (go to a mall!) is much more compelling than mine (statistically, Bush’ unemployment rate is higher than what he was handed when he came into office).
OK, I’ll see your ‘go to a mall’ with another personal experience. I went to a Home Depot to look for a job because I couldn’t find a job as a software engineer after 8 months of trying. The hiring manager told me, “Another engineer, huh?
I’m seeing tons of you guys.”
After a couple months of that, I got a job as a software engineer at a startup with 6 months of funding making 20% less than I used to.
The economy is bad.
I recently took a job making more than I ever have in my life. By your logic, then, the economy is great.
I was making a point about using personal experience as a citation to back up an argument about the economy at large.
For you, I would imagine the economy is great. Many people voted according to how well they are personally doing. I think that’s fine (although I think they would be smart to take the long view - yes, I’m doing great, but have the policies ruined my future?).
The employment situation ain’t all beer and skittles: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6183320/
He’s going to continue his current policies with the impunity that comes from a second term. Depending on your career field, your job prospects might suck.
He’s going to teach you to use semicolons and capitals before you graduate, and he will also reverse some of Bush’s policies.