To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26770 ) 9/6/2012 9:15:36 PM From: gamesmistress 2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to So is reading. Here's the source of those original numbers you, er, criticized. You'll notice that he doesn't say jobs created under Repubs or Dems, he says jobs created under conservative or liberal economic policies. As I said, subject to interpretation. James Pethokoukis | September 6, 2012, 8:41 am Well, since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private- sector jobs. So what’s the job score? Republicans: twenty-four million. Democrats: forty-two. Why would we analyze the effectiveness of economic approaches by using party labels rather than looking at the actual policies? For instance, about 10 million net new private jobs were created during the Nixon-Ford years vs 21 million under Clinton. But which administration generally followed conservative policies of shrinking government (spending fell to 18% of GDP under Clinton from 21%), welfare reform, and cutting taxes on capital … and which administration expanded government (spending rose to 21% of GDP under Nixon-Ford from 19%), increased regulation (the pages in the Federal Register by grew by 185% under Nixon and Ford vs. 7% under Clinton) and presided over a confiscatory tax code? Conservative economic policies win 40 million jobs to 26 million jobs http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/the-bad-arithmetic-of-bill-clintons-democratic-republican-job-score/
