Flame — HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to Let's assume it worked for Reagan.

Nice try.

Your source had, as its sole criteria of success, jobs created under that president. The premise is idiotic to start with, since there are many factors in job creation, most of which don't involve the government at all, and of those that do, are generated in Congress. And there are other factors. The dot.com boom. The end of the Cold War. The 9/11 attack. Trade issues. Globalization. The rise of overseas manufacturing. Hundreds of economic inputs from many sources through all those presidencies.

Presidents don't "create" jobs. At their best, they get out of the way.

But it's your source, and I ran with it.

In that source, Reagan, whose policies are a lot more conservative than Bush's ever were, was number 2 on jobs created.

"Borrowed money?" You sound like someone who's being backed into a philosophical corner. You starting to look at the news?

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