Charts for the Bush administration, don't make any point about Republicans. Bush is one president, not all Republican president's and congress.
None of your charts include anything about congress.
The pork project chart is on a different topic (not employment levels, unemployment figures, or economic growth).
The debt chart is questionable, and again about a different topic.
The last chart is the same data you posted before. Its on topic, but so is my reply with a chart of showing about 8 million jobs gained while the Republicans controlled congress, with about 8 million lost once the Dems took over.
Of course they are all, both your charts and mine, a little silly (if they are meant to make a political point). Political parties are generally not the main drivers of economic results, and when they do have an impact the impact can be delayed. (For example the heavy regulation, overly easy money, and generally trying to stimulate the economy in the 70s, had negative effects that lasted in to the Reagan presidency, then the cut in marginal rates from 70% by Reagan and the congress at the time had positive effects that lasted for a long time, in some ways probably even until today). The reality is of course far more complex than any charts or graphs like these show. |
