Job Creation...Democrats vs Republicans

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Jobs by President
by Devilstower
Mon Mar 02, 2009 at 07:40:05 PM PST

It's no surprise to anyone that job creation under George W. Bush was godawful. Only slightly less obvious is this view of job creation since World War II.

What does it show? Under Democratic presidencies, job creation goes up. Every Democrat who followed a Republican did better than the Republican who preceded them. Every Republican who followed a Democrat produced fewer jobs than their predecessor.

And before anyone jumps on the "but that was because they got all the jobs that were started up under the previous administration," notice that where Republican followed Republican, the second administration came out worse than the first. When Democrat followed Democrat (for which we don't have nearly enough examples) job creation improved in the second administration.

And we can be thankful that McCain didn't follow Bush. Based on the pattern, we'd be down 8 million jobs by the time Palin finished off the first term.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/23/153449/938/834/700890

Seriously- you knock Rush, but use Kos as a reliable source of info?? LOLOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms



This chart says the same thing.

Ohhmama wrote:

Seriously- you knock Rush, but use Kos as a reliable source of info?? LOLOL

Yeah I do,since KOS used actual labor dept statistics to arrive at their conclusion. There was also a link embedded in the article from http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/ that has a chart of employment statistics from Truman to the present.

What does it show? Under Democratic presidencies, job creation goes up.

But you forgot to mention that they were mostly jobs in government bureaucracy.

Mirage wrote:

What does it show? Under Democratic presidencies, job creation goes up.

But you forgot to mention that they were mostly jobs in government bureaucracy.

Not so fast,Mirage..

Quote :

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power--and usually all three. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans. Include regulations and foreign policy, as well as budgets approved by a Republican Congress, and a picture begins to emerge of the Republican Party as a reliable engine of government growth.

http://mises.org/story/895