Over the last 35 years, employers have added roughly 51 million jobs in the United States, and 50 million of them — 98% — have been created during Democratic administrations.
Over the last 35 years, employers have added roughly 51 million jobs in the United States, and 50 million of them — 98% — have been created during Democratic administrations.
Bill Clinton made a bold claim this week about U.S. job growth under Democratic presidents. It also happened to be true.
Hard times create Democratic presidents, Democratic presidents create good times, good times create Republican presidents, and Republican presidents create hard times.
126Just like how most of the national debt reductions have been during democratic administrations.
It’s almost like tax cuts for “job creators” don’t really create jobs. 🤔
48Trump was on camera saying dems were better for the economy or some shit many years ago.
33I'm also just some guy but wasn't this debunked? Don't get me wrong, despise Trump, but like does anyone have a source of this video? Might be confusing this with one of the other things he maybe said on tape so full grain of salt y'all!
0I found this:
9Pretty sure the reason I know about it is because someone posted it to the old site.
1He had plenty of videos showing him as pretty rational before. I think old age got to him eventually though.
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He has been known to lie occasionally
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The article does call out that 1989 is a pretty arbitrary starting point, and extending that to 1945 creates a less lopsided (but still Democrat-favoring) picture.
I'd be interested in the comparison looking back to Nixon, as he was a stark departure from the republican party of Eisenhower. And of course he lead to Reagan, Bush 1&2, and Trump.
18I think it's a fine starting point if Republicans haven't been job creators for 35 years which is almost the entire millennial generation. What a bleak view, honestly.
36I am 38, grew up in WI, spent the majority of my life in various Midwestern states, and for over a decade now have lived in Boston. I always say that, ignoring everything else (which is a lot), I have never seen a Republican governing body ever do anything but make life worse--be it state or federal. I have no experience of Republicans as anything but utterly incompetent failures at statescraft.
4Yeah it gives you enough time to see the long term effects of neoliberalism selling off public assets kicking in, instead of the temporary cash influx.
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TBF Clinton also got a huge boost from the Internet taking off.
-5Did it grow particularly more under Clinton than Bush?
6Probably, it was the creation of an entirely new sector, and there was a fairly huge bubble that broke right 2000-1, that took years to recover from.
And bush royally fucked the economy with the IRAQ war then removing banking regulations that led to the 2008 collapse.
Don't get me wrong, I loved Clinton, I'm just pointing out things aren't always clear cut. There's many factors and not all of them are controllable.
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