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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Little Joe who wrote (57294)	7/1/2009 9:41:23 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You missed something. Raygun and the Bushes are in favor of big government. Ike, Nixon, Clinton weren't. Here are the figures for average contribution of the federal government to growth in G.D.P., by four-year terms. A positive sign means the government grew in real terms. A negative one means it got smaller. The figures are compound annual changes for each term. To make the lists easier to read, Democratic terms are italicized and those that saw government shrink are in bold. 1949-52 (Truman, D) +8.7% 1953-57 (Eisenhower, R) -1.3% 1957-60 (Eisenhower, R) -0.2% 1961-64 (Kennedy-Johnson, D) +2.1% 1965-68 (Johnson-D) +4.3% 1969-72 (Nixon, R) -2.8% 1973-76 (Nixon-Ford, R) -0.7% 1977-80 (Carter, D) +1.0% 1981-84 (Reagan, R) +1.1% 1985-88 (Reagan, R) +1.7% 1989-92 (GHW Bush, R) +0.7% 1993-96 (Clinton, D) -2.6% 1997-2000 (Clinton, D) -0.1% 2001-04 (GW Bush, R) +0.9% 2005-08 (GW Bush, R) +0.9% norris.blogs.nytimes.com