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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsjob creation and deficits: per President
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Looking at jobs and deficits
Reagan: 15M jobs
$79B to $159B
Bush: 2M jobs
$153B to $255B
Clinton: 23M jobs
$255B to $128B surplus
Bush 1.5M jobs
$128B surplus to $1T debt
Obama 12M jobs
1.16T to $585B
Trump 5M jobs
$585B to $1.1T
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Donald J. Trump
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· Sep 7
Our Economy is doing great!!!!!
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job creation and deficits: per President (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Sep 2019
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Why are democratic presidents better at job creation and lower debt to GDP? thx in advance
uponit7771
Sep 2019
#3
Here's a 2016 paper in American Economic Review that addresses that question
Ramsey Barner
Sep 2019
#4
RainCaster
(10,822 posts)1. (hand) jobs, (foot) jobs, (blow) jobs
You are getting screwed, learn to enjoy it, or vote.
at140
(6,110 posts)2. Presidents get too much credit or blame for job creations
They have little if any effect on economy.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)3. Why are democratic presidents better at job creation and lower debt to GDP? thx in advance
Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)4. Here's a 2016 paper in American Economic Review that addresses that question
(I know you're being sarcastic, but there's solid analysis to back you up!)
[link:https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20140913|
at140
(6,110 posts)5. depends on the president!
Clinton was good at creating conditions which boost jobs and lower debt by taxing the rich.
LBJ created problems by spending too much in Vietnam (guns and butter policy).
Most republican presidents during my lifetime have always favored tax cuts for the rich and boosting military expenditures and increase debt.