The numbers don't lie
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/131256-simple-graph-compares-reagan-obamas-recoveries/
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/131256-simple-graph-compares-reagan-obamas-recoveries/
Obama vs. Reagan recoveries
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Two things that are different
Compromise - heard Bob Dole take on Ted Cruz today
Taxes - Reagan passed four tax acts uring his Presidency which created revenue which created jobs.
Compromise - heard Bob Dole take on Ted Cruz today
Taxes - Reagan passed four tax acts uring his Presidency which created revenue which created jobs.
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Of course. Because there is a cookie cutter for all crashes, downturns & recoveries, and all of the surrounding circumstances for each are exactly identical.
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You mean former President Dole who crushed Clinton by 20 points in 1996?
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while there are most certainly different, that doesn't change the fact that Obama has failed.
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Must be because Obama is black and Reagan was white?
Id think it was due to BO following FDRs failed model while RR used JFKs successful one.
The lie is not in the actual numbers, but the choice of those numbers over others, and the method of coming up with the job numbers.
Economic differences to be certain, but I submit Reagan's policies, had Obama chose to follow his lead, would have been more successful.
Obama is a centrist liberal, but IMO he also brought to the presidency a cultural socialism that choked any hope for a solid recovery. We can't get a jobs friendly president into office too soon to head off further damage from Obamas weak approach and bad social policies.
Obama is a centrist liberal, but IMO he also brought to the presidency a cultural socialism that choked any hope for a solid recovery. We can't get a jobs friendly president into office too soon to head off further damage from Obamas weak approach and bad social policies.
Post your proof.
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The Reagan years are over-mythologized. Median family income barely grew between those awful '70's and 1990. He more than doubled the budget deficit. Income inequality basically blew up during his years in office.
His policies had a lot of far-reaching consequences - most of them negative.
His policies had a lot of far-reaching consequences - most of them negative.
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examples of these policies?
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How about slashing housing assistance? Do you think it's a coincidence that we didn't really hear about a "homeless problem" before the '80's?
Reagan's policies in general were very wealthy individual/corporate friendly. If you want to go back to both when there started to be a dramatic disparity between the haves & have nots, as well as when our deficits started exploding, they're all about Reagan and his fiscal management.
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LOL... so because no one was talking about the homeless, the problem didn't exist? Ok.
LOL... so now we are to the 'well in general his policies did such and so, but I can't provide examples'
As for the deficits... again... who controls the purse strings? The President or Congress?
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As for deficits... Reagan $1.6T added to the national debt. Same for Clinton (though less when adjusted for inflation). Yet Clinton is this mythological fiscal genius to the left.
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Proof please
Where are you getting your figures for Reagan and Clinton?
Also, too, Clinton fixed the problem that Reagan created.
The President has a hard time creating policy with a do nothing Congress.