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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doren who wrote (179348)	8/30/2020 7:15:48 PM
From: Doren	4 Recommendations Recommended By bentway CentralParkRanger Eric L Terry Maloney Respond to of 354333

So all we ever hear from Republicans is how bad democrats and their policies are so I decided years ago to do some research. When you look back in history at the facts, Democratic administrations have actually outperformed Republican admins and have been way better for big business. So why do Republicans always claim they are better for big business/job growth/GDP growth when its actually the Democrats who lead in those stats. Lets have a look at the facts and venture down history road. 1. 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 jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million. Democrats have presided over far more job growth. 2. GDP has also grown at a much faster rate under Democratic administrations. Since world war 2 Democrats have averaged 4.4% and Republicans only 2.5%. That difference is big! At those rates, over thirty years your $50,000 income compounds up to $105,000 under Republicans, $182,000 under Democrats — 73% higher. (And this is all before considering distribution — whether the growing prosperity is widely enjoyed, or narrowly concentrated.) 3. 9 out of the last 11 official recessions came under Republicans. Out of the 49 recessionary quarters only 8 were under a Democrat and 41 under a Republican. 4. Lets also look at executive branch corruption numbers over the years. So, let’s see where that leaves us. In the last 53 years, Democrats have been in the Oval Office for 25 of those years, while Republicans held it for 28. In their 25 yrs in office Democrats had a total of three executive branch officials indicted with one conviction and one prison sentence. That’s one whole executive branch official convicted of a crime in two and a half decades of Democrat leadership. In the 28 yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 53 yrs they have had a total of (a drum roll would be more than appropriate), 120 criminal indictments of executive branch officials. 89 criminal convictions and 34 prison sentences handed down. That’s more prison sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans. If you want to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren’t really but we can count them as an action), both sides get one more. However, Clinton wasn’t found guilty while Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford (and a pardon carries with it a legal admission of guilt on the part of the pardoned). So those only serve to make Republicans look even worse. 5. Why are majority of these red states the poorest whose legislatures are dominated by Republicans. Also why are red states taking way more in federal subsidies than blue states if Republican policies are so good? This is a fact. Red states mooch far more in subsidies than blue states. 6. Democratic districts represent nearly two-thirds of America economic GDP (64%)!!!!! 7. Red districts over the last decade have been in decline with regards to overall productivity and median income while Blue districts have been increasing and expanding. Not to mention death rates in red states is far higher than blue states mostly due to inequality and Republicans not expanding healthcare (Medicaid) to people. People living in blue states on average live 4 plus years longer than people in red states. Sources: Bloomberg, Politico and Dept of Labor Thanks =AZW1RW104GmCj8TygwU3_XrviSkv6CCz2fj4hiOwkGSmLGigT7HPAqp26coJt-3Kr2vNxDdZOL8JCLqlDN4X_Px8sg_H2Z8gNv_JNs7yxYiexVN92rTGbLS53uPpLMBdrjEfsFObHQszYZdjDToQtq6NJgLgKRXa82rh5LP9ggT14MSLLBPZosYCcSAy98hsiYA&__tn__=-]K-y-R] Josh Batts Awesome work!!!!