My Jimmy Carter Story
When Carter was president, I was working for the US Census Bureau in Suitland Md. During his presidency, there was an oil embargo and Carter, through executive order, reduced the temperature in all government offices to the mid-fifties. So, we sat there freezing for a couple of days getting no work done. Then someone figured out how to break into the office heaters and by the end of the week the temperature was back to normal and we could work again.
So Carter, at least at the Census Bureau, disrupted work for a couple of days, and probably made a number of people sick.
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When Carter was president, I was working for the US Census Bureau in Suitland Md. During his presidency, there was an oil embargo and Carter, through executive order, reduced the temperature in all government offices to the mid-fifties. So, we sat there freezing for a couple of days getting no work done. Then someone figured out how to break into the office heaters and by the end of the week the temperature was back to normal and we could work again.
So Carter, at least at the Census Bureau, disr
So the POTUS had a directive and you and other members of the DeepState sabotaged it. Interesting.
My Jimmy Carter Story.... is not really a JC story.
I lived in south GA for a while and one of the secret service guys on JC's detail lived across the street and we became fairly good friends.... tho not good enough to survive after we moved out of state. Anyway....
One afternoon I was talking with a neighbor on the front yard and we hear BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM coming from the woods behind the SS guys house. We go running to see if everything was OK. We find SSman holding his pistol, aiming at the
Shooting (rattle)snakes with a pistol isn't always easy lol You really kinda need a headshot because body shots don't usually seal the deal. Snakeshot helps but it's pretty rare to have handy/already loaded when you need it--which means you end up firing multiple times until you Know it's dead 😀
One final thought. While some of you have made fun of my op, the fact of the matter was that at Census headquarters, where I was just one of several thousand people, it was so cold that virtually no one could work.
Again, this happen because to get the temperature down to Carter's required 65 degrees the whole heating system had to be turned off and the temperature went to well below 65 degrees. And, in my opinion, this was typical of the Carter Administration. It wasn't that the basic idea wasn't okay, it was simply that things weren't thought through.
Doesn't the implementation in the field have something to do with it, too, though? Instead of simply switching off the heating like headless goons, whoever was in charge of the implementation could have realized some refitting had to be done for the heating system to meet the required maximum temperature, while maintaining an acceptable minimal temperature?
damn luckbox beat me to it.
he also supported the Khmer in those years too. but I guess they were mostly done with their genocide.
The reason he bizarrely supported them was that they were out of power (so done genociding) and feebly trying to fight the new Vietnam-installed Cambodian government. He did this to maintain relations with the Chinese, who hated the Vietnamese, though there was probably also US resentment of the Vietnamese for defeating them. The Reagan administration (along with the Thatcher government in Britain) was bigger on support for the Khmer Rouge, but that still didn't get anyone anywhere.
Remember, this was back in the 1970s. At that time, a lot of people at Census, and this includes myself, worked very hard.
However, when I left the Census Bureau at the end of 1981, I never looked back. And some of the things I learned when working in Statistical Methods Division found their way into my gambling theory work. See the chapters on non-self-weighting strategies in my Gambling Theory book for an example.
One final thought. While some of you have made fun of my op, the fact of the matter was that at Census headquarters, where I was just one of several thousand people, it was so cold that virtually no one could work.
Again, this happen because to get the temperature down to Carter's required 65 degrees the whole heating system had to be turned off and the temperature went to well below 65 degrees. And, in my opinion, this was typical of the Carter Administration. It wasn't that the basic idea wasn'
We get it... you were basically throwing shade at an honorable man, someone who is probably more moral and just than all of us combined in here, shortly after his death.
Well played... very well played.
