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Since the end of WW2, and especially since the end of the Cold War, Democratic administrations have presided over significantly higher job growth than Republica
by Herring 7mo ago
Since the end of WW2, and especially since the end of the Cold War, Democratic administrations have presided over significantly higher job growth than Republican administrations.
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- jkmcf 7mo agoI was going to use this quote yesterday, but correlation is not causation. I prefer the one where the national debt increases more under "fiscally responsible" republicans. More correlation: more jobs are created and inflation is lower under democratic administrations. GDP is also better with a Dem president, but it partially depends on the makeup of congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deficit-us-presidents-since-reagan/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deficit-us-presidents-sinc...
- Herring 7mo agoAt this point it's like claiming blue states have better policies than red states. Even kids in middle school understand that. They get older and try very hard to forget.