18 Feb 2014 3:47 pm
And let's not forget how the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy spread lies to fool Americans!Cannonpointer » 18 Feb 2014 3:38 pm » wrote:Oh, look. Glory Hole carefully aboided the chart, already posted by Amazon Tania, which shows the huge percentage of PART TIME jobs which Clem's chart hides.
Reagan gamed the system. In reagan's world, the catsup on a school lunch hamburger counted as a "vegetable." He was forever gaming the system with smoke and mirrors, backwards engineering and social engineering - like when he federalized America's public schools.
On 8 of the 10 key economic variables examined, the American economy performed better during the Reagan years than during the pre- and post-Reagan years.
Real economic growth averaged 3.2 percent during the Reagan years versus 2.8 percent during the Ford-Carter years and 2.1 percent during the Bush-Clinton years.
Real median family income grew by $4,000 during the Reagan period after experiencing no growth in the pre-Reagan years; it experienced a loss of almost $1,500 in the post-Reagan years.
Interest rates, inflation, and unemployment fell faster under Reagan than they did immediately before or after his presidency.
http://www.cato.org/publications/policy ... mic-record