15 Mar 2014 2:02 pm
Ironic you'd want to "consider things in context" when your OP, of which you were so proud, did no such thing and instead used raw GDP numbers.Cannonpointer » 15 Mar 2014 1:36 pm » wrote:
Link?
And be forewarned - I have the breakdown for Carter v Reagan as regards Full time v Part time - REAL jobs vs "ketchup is a vegetable" jobs.
That's the problem with your hero Ronnie. All of his numbers have asterisks next to them. None of the results you laud him for really belong to him. RIGHT NOW, today, on this board, there are people cussing the negro for Reagan's debts.
Yes, I can judge Reagan's economy IN CONTEXT. And carter's economy IN CONTEXT.
That is actually what any honest comparison strives to do - apples to apples, not apples to carburetors. When Reagan gets kudos for wild stimulus spending and tripling the national debt - kudos from people who are cursing obama for wild stimulus spending and barely even moving the national debt, relative to what Reagan did - then there is CLEARLY a context issue in the debate.
I doubt very seriously you are willing to cosign Obama's significantly more conservative approach to borrowing. Yet you are crediting Reagan's economic "accomplishments" without any consideration of what those "accomplishments" really were: Redistribution of wealth from the unborn to the born.
If Carter had tripled the debt to move enormous sums of money from one class to another, could he have counted that as part of HIS economy - with your support?
Carter was limited on how much he could borrow because of his stagflation. So in addition to your assertion being invalid because it's speculative, it's also invalid because it's unrealistic.
Oh, and on the topic of full time vs part time, you mean like this graph here where it shows Reagan's full time job growth more than doubles Carter's???
And the nice thing about Reagan was the jobs stayed and income grew. Not so much with Carter dude.
The sad thing for Carter is millions of baby boomers came of age during his presidency. Reagan got generation x, a much smaller generation, coming of age, and he still managed to get more people into the labor force than Carter. 'Splain that one Lucy.