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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (16644)	4/11/2010 5:06:48 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

Yeah, I hear that argument all the time. A quick google search yielded this piece on job creation, if you added 2009 I believe the 'Bush' job creation record would actually be NEGATIVE. Didn't he cut those taxes almost a decade ago??? Millions of Jobs Added (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics) Truman 1949 -1952 5.2 Eisenhower 1953 – 1956 2.7 Eisenhower 1957 – 1960 0.8 Kennedy/Johnson 1961 – 1964 5.7 Johnson 1965 – 1968 9.8 Nixon 1969 – 1972 6.1 Nixon/Ford 1972 – 1976 5.2 Carter 1977 – 1980 10.4 Reagan 1981 – 1984 5.2 Reagan 1985 – 1988 10.8 Bush 1989 – 1992 2.5 Clinton 1993 – 1996 11.6 Clinton 1997 – 2000 11.5 Bush 2001 – 2004 (0.1) Bush 2005 – 2008 5.1