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In reply to the discussion: Obama's Record On Job Creation Is 157,143 Per Month Since 4/2010, - better than any Republican- [View all]mikekohr
(2,312 posts)But toward the end you are grasping reality. Republican job creation sucks. Always. Without exception.
Your explaining away the 31% better monthly job Creation record (in raw numbers) of President Obama, from 9/2012, as compared to the 1st term record of President Reagan, is overwrought. It is that kind of staggering minutia that causes people to tune out.
The population of the US grew 33% between 1984 and today. The labor force only grew by 30%. The difference in part due to an aging population. It it all but impossible to split out and weight exactly the differences from one administration to another over time.
But make no mistake about it. The problems we are overcoming today are deeply rooted in Reagan's Trickle Down economic and tax policies. Reagan was an economic F-U.
Trickle Down exploded the debt. The deregulation mindset set the stage for the repeal of Glass/Steegal and the collapse of the housing and financial industry. Reagan's anti labor rhetoric has been instrumental in the all out assault on the Labor Movement and the hollowing out of the middle class. The stagnation (loss actually) of median income of the last 30 years started with Reagan.
Two things grow when a Republican is in the White House, unemployment and the National Debt.
http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/national-debt.html