Liberal Forum

We have another issue in contention, as well. You know how that colored fella in the whitehouse is having himself a "jobless recovery?" And you know how that sucks for a lot of folks, on account of they consider having a job a sort of "economic" measure - as in, not having a job puts a strain on their economy?

Yeah, well, we are just gonna have to deal with the fact that one measure of the economy is employment - jobs. And a whole bunch of the jobs in the Reagan economy were created by Carter. How do I know? I got the chart - Forbes told me so.

I reckon, too, that if the entire economy that Reagan was accountable for had all gone to two guys guys, and everyone else had starved to death, he would not be judged by raw numbers ir inflation-adjusted numbers alone. There are more ingredients in a presidency than how much you can run up your grandkids' debt-slavery to "earn" the respect of folks who hate kids. There zare actually several comparisons where Reagan looks like a turd beside Carter - but let's address the issue of jobs for a minute.

Now, you have two problems comparing that lightweight ken doll to my peanut farmer, on the jobs front:

1. Carter Created a hell of a lot more jobs per annum than Reagan - more than 25% more. Hell, Carter out produced BOTH bushes and Gerry Ford. In fact, he DOUBLED the three of them - and between them, they served three terms and a ford fart.

2. The other issue id this game Reagan played with the tax code to manipulate (bribe with public money) employers into dumping their full timers and hiring two part timers to puff up reagan's numbers. He was always playing **** games like that - ketchup is a vegetable; a log with a nick in it is a "manufactured item for export" - he was more Clinton than Clinton on the manipulation tip.




For the record, I am dropping my sword and acknowledging my error as regards my original claim. Carter's economy was not QUITE as good as reagan's (though I think Carter was better on the economy - he just had too many republicans between him and the last non-republican president. He was batting clean up for an economy that was overheated by a guy trying to get re-elected and willing to do whatever foul thing it is that bad people do to overheat economies. Plus Nixon. He's poopy.

Carter served during a GLOBAL recession, so some of the other kids probably did some stuff.