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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (821010)12/5/2014 1:21:29 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (3) of 1584617
 
>> The amusing thing is that every president, especially the sainted Reagan, has greatly expanded government hiring to kick start a recovery coming out of a recession.

This is just stupid. Between 1980 and 1988, the number of federal government jobs, INCLUDING MILITARY, increased from 4.965 M to 5.289 M, an increase of 324,000 jobs over 8 years. Now, you are trying to claim that an increase in 40K jobs per year had some meaningful effect on the economy.

I would also point out that between 1980 and 1983, when Reagan was ending the recession, jobs increased from 4.965M to 5.039M -- a total of 74,000 new jobs over three years. Immaterial, by any metric.

You are so full of it.
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