{"id":2787,"date":"2010-09-22T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2010-09-22T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:58:11","slug":"not-so-fast-jimmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/22\/not-so-fast-jimmy\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so fast, Jimmy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Carter&#8217;s new book has opened him to accusations of petulance, taking pot-shots at the deceased Ted Kennedy and at other ex-presidents.\u00a0 (He claimed to be a &#8220;superior&#8221; ex-president in one interview.)<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-09-21\/jimmy-carters-white-house-diaries-speed-read\/\">this claim, made on pg. 412 of the book<\/a>, is just plain factually wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On March 24, 1980, after losing out in the New York Democratic Primary  to Ted Kennedy by a vote of 59-41 percent, Carter blamed the loss on the  popularity of Kennedy\u2019s brothers and his overall lack of Jewish  support.<\/p>\n<p>However, Carter also took a firm jab at the state of New York,  saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a unique state, with a habit of sucking at the federal  budget tit more than anyone else in the country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carter is, simply and factually, wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve noted elsewhere in the In Box, New York state receives back only around 80 cents in Federal spending for every dollar that we contribute in Federal taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the Empire state has forked over billions &#8212; if not trillions &#8212; of dollars to fund programs in other parts of the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Carter&#8217;s new book has opened him to accusations of petulance, taking pot-shots at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}