Mar

03

2010

Jobs gained or lost: Republican vs Democrat controlled Congress

by Skip

The result?

Jobs gained or lost: Republican vs Democrat controlled Congress

Telling, isn’t it?

Republicans are often derided by Democrats by calling them "pro-business" and the Dems laud themselves as being "pro-labor".  

Yeah, real pro-labor; just less of them….

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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  • Otis Valin

    I must beg this question of you… Do you really feel that the world is so clear cut that it is so easy to say republicans are better than democrats, we are better than them, one is better than the other? Are we not two sides of the same coin? Do we not share this earth together? The world is much more complex than you want it to be.

  • tiberius

    We had rapid growth during the republican years that was built on skyrocketing consumer debt, unrealistically low interest rates, historically low savings rates, tax cuts financed with foreign borrowing, imaginary wealth generated by an unsustainable housing bubble, and a financial industry that deliberately concealed risk to pocket quick profits.
    It was the perfect setup for an economic trainwreck, already inevitable before the new democratic majority was even seated.

  • d. john

    If this chart took policy lag into effect I would take it seriously.
    As it stands, it’s basically useless.
    You *do* know that it often takes years before passed legislation is implemented right?
    You can’t dismiss that factor and still call this graph honest.

  • Mrbadexample

    According to Paul Craig Roberts (former assistant Treasury Secretary under Reagan), there was no net job growth under Bush.
    http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03062006.html
    ” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll jobs data, from January 2001 – January 2006 the US economy created 1,054,000 net new private sector jobs and 1,039,000 net new government jobs for a total five-year figure of 2,093,000. “[/P]
    The ‘created jobs’ (72% of which were in ‘hospitality’ and retail and other low-paying fields) replaced all those nice manufacturing, IT, Accounting, medical billing, Architectural and engineering jobs that went off-shore with the encouragement of the Bush administration. After accounting for the swap, the Republicans’ efforts to grow jobs were barely keeping pace with population growth at the top of the Bush ‘expansion’.

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