Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980: 10.5 million new jobs
Bill Clinton, 1993-1996: 11.6 million new jobs
Bill Clinton, 1997-2000: 12.4 million new jobs Total: 33.6 million jobs created over 12 years, or 2.8 million jobs per year
Ronald Reagan 1981-1984: 5.2 million new jobs
Ronald Reagan 1985-1988: 10.8 million new jobs
George H.W. Bush 1989-1992: 2.6 million new jobs
George W. Bush 2001-2004: 0.2 million fewer jobs
George W. Bush 2005-2007: 5.5 million new jobs
Total: 24 million jobs created over 19 years, or 1.3 million jobs per year Government Spending
How much did the government spend for every dollar of revenue?
Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980: $ 1.16
Bill Clinton, 1993-1996: $1.25
Bill Clinton, 1997-2000: $1.01
Democratic Average: $1.16
Ronald Reagan 1981-1984: $1.31
Ronald Reagan 1985-1988: $1.38
George H.W. Bush 1989-1992: $1.34
George W. Bush 2001-2004: $1.27
George W. Bush 2005-2007: $1.24
Republican Average: $1.29
The difference between $1.16 and $1.29 may not seem like a lot, but the impact on the national debt is huge, especially when you consider that $1.29 applies to 19 years, and the budgets under this president are so much larger.
Increases in Government Debt
Growth In Debt Held By the Public [$US trillions]
Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980: 0.2
Bill Clinton, 1993-1996: 0.7
Bill Clinton, 1997-2000: -0.3
Democratic Total: 0.6
Ronald Reagan 1981-1984: 0.6
Ronald Reagan 1985-1988: 0.7
George H.W. Bush 1989-1992: 0.9
George W. Bush 2001-2004: 0.9
George W. Bush 2005-2007: 1.1
Republican Total: 4.3
The financial markets only pay attention to the amount of debt held by the public. This is the number that helps drive down the value of the dollar and makes bankers nervous about inflation down the road. Growth of Debt Held By "Government Accounts" [$US trillions]
Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980: 0.00
Bill Clinton, 1993-1996: 0.4
Bill Clinton, 1997-2000: 0.8 Democratic Total: 1.3
Ronald Reagan 1981-1984: 0.1
Ronald Reagan 1985-1988: 0.3
George H.W. Bush 1989-1992: 0.5
George W. Bush 2001-2004: 0.8
George W. Bush 2005-2007: 1.4
Republican Total: 3.0
Debt held in government accounts is very much a misnomer. Debt, in the real world, is a fixed obligation to make a payment on a specific date. Not so for debt held in government accounts, according to this White House.
"The Bush administration opposes including Social Security and Medicare in the audited deficit. Its reason: Congress can cancel or cut the retirement programs at any time, so they should not be considered a government liability for accounting purposes." USA Today, August 3, 2006
This subject warrants a separate article, but there, in a nutshell, is the basis for the Republicans' "Social Security Reform."
In very simple terms, what happens is that the money contributed by everyone into Social Security, intended to build up a surplus to fund the baby boomers' nest egg for their retirement years, is actually used to reduce the government's reported deficit. Is it a huge scam? You bet. President Clinton, anticipating the problem, proposed some kind of undefined "lockbox" to prevent the pillaging of the Social Security surplus that's taken place under the current White House. Of course, the Republicans shot that down.
Anyone who speaks of a crisis in Social Security is really talking about a problem that can be laid at the Republicans' doorstep. It's not class warfare, just simple arithmetic.
Sources:
Job Creation: Bureau of Labor Statistics Seasonally adjusted nonfarm payrolls, calculated on calendar years
Government Spending: OMB, On-Budget Outlays divided by On-Budget Revenues
Increases in Government Debt: OMB
Republicans have done as badly as the banking, auto making and war CEOs. They are failed and they should be shamed, humiliated, sorry and aware of the dangers they have bestowed upon their own country and the world. When the Titanic sank, the lifeboats were half full. We can blame the captain for running the ship into the berg AND not seeing to it that as many people as possible were saved. Just like republicans, the rich got help first and the rest were locked away. The republicans today are the equivelent of the the White Start Lines executives trying to block changes to the maritime code.. you know, for safety's sake.
Why would anyone want to hear anything coming out of their mouths? It's reprehensible shame or. at least, humility that we are looking for on their brows, but instead, we get this childish, hillbilly movement of naysayers and sour fvcktards spewing wisdoms from 1543ad. There were no naysayers when Bush gave away 350 Billion to "shit business" rich guys with no strings attached, but they say nay to someone willing to think thrice before carefully spending money on the middle class and the future. What idiots.
The political lexicon needs another entry... republican... synonymous with loser, liar and lame ass. I guess thats the latest government/business/social trendd these days, keep your retarded baggage with you when trying to fix their damages, all the while listening to their hillbilly sissy fits.
You are making 2 critical mistakes;
A) You assume we fvckin' CARE what you think.....(ALTHOUGH YOU CONTINUE TO BEAT DEAD HORSES.......)
B) clinton (gag, puke!) didn't come up with the "lock box" plan, it was al (yak, gag!) bore............
-Rocky-
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
You are making 2 critical mistakes;
A) You assume we fvckin' CARE what you think.....(ALTHOUGH YOU CONTINUE TO BEAT DEAD HORSES.......)
B) clinton (gag, puke!) didn't come up with the "lock box" plan, it was al
Dead horses? If only they would die!
You dont think coRky, thats your problem. I only care that you dont think. You dont search, reach or dare mighty things. Anyone "checkered by failure" doesnt seem to understand the chess game at hand.
Mistakes? Why do you still give yourself credit enough to judge any mistakes? That is your fundamental problem. Not only can you not see, admit or fix your mistakes, you spend that reconciliation/learning/growing time judging others! Thats is what is wrong with you and your party. You solutions are to attack people with credibility whilst denying your spectacular failures. At what point does a right winger accept any responsibility?
I have never seen anything lower than a swiftboater and that's what the entire republican party is now, a swiftboat ride into an iceberg.
I feel the best way to ensure Americans'
freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible.
Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered
government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free
speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.
— Attorney General John Ashcroft... SNL sketch
I’m not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I’m sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.
— Sen. Kit Bond (R-Missouri)
What we don’t see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
— Rudolph W. Giuliani
Why is it that American troops who, surrendered to the Japanese at Corregidor, are heroes and the French soldiers who, surrendered to the Germans are cowards?
— Gog
TOP 20 ALL-TIME STUPID REPUBLICAN QUOTES
20. The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing." --Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on criticism of his management of the Iraq war
19. If you’ve seen one city slum, you’ve seen them all.-- Spiro Agnew
18. A good many things creep around in the dark besides Santa Claus.--" Herbert Hoover, US President
17."I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire." --California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
16. Capital punishment is our way of demonstrating the sanctity of life."-- Orrin Hatch
15. It’s like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here." --Alan Keyes, on the Chicago neighborhood he chose to rent in after moving to the state to run for the U.S. Senate
14. If you think the United States has stood still, who would have built the largest shopping center in the world?-- Richard M. Nixon
13. It may come as a shock to you who live out in the real world, but occasionally we do something up here. Not often, I admit, but sometimes. For example, I think the House has passed National Peach Month so far this year and we expect to act on it soon." --Senate Majority Leader (and Presidential candidate) Robert Dole of Kansas in 1982
12."If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.—Gerald Ford (on Nixon and Watergate)
11.The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory---George Herbert Walker Bush
10. Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. They may say they don’t like but from my experience I know they like it.-- Richard Nixon
9. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?" --Sen. Rick Santorum
8.These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes. President Eisenhower commenting on racial segregationalists after the Brown vs. Board of Ed decision.
7. "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three nonfatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable, and we're going to do something about it" --President George W. Bush
6. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But I didn't live in this century." Vice President Dan Quayle
5. "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."--Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, testifying before Congress
(Quick! Somebody phone Al Gonzalez and tell him there were no phones or electricity during the Washington and Lincoln administrations)
4. I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people." -- Attorney General John Ashcroft
3. I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
2. "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."- Vice President Dan Quayle
1. Hmmm, uhh, hah -- ummm -- I, the answer is -- I haven't really thought of it that way, heh, heh. Heh. Here's how I think of it. Ummm -- heh heh. First I've heard of that, by the way, I, ah -- uhh -- the, uhh -- I, I guess I'm more of a practical fella. Uhh. I vowed after September the 11th that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. And, uhh -- my attitude, of course, was affected by the attacks.ha ha ...ummm Let me see... I knew we were at a war.
Palin...what can one say? STUPID DICK
1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)
2. "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008
3. "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." --Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008 (Read more about the prank call, watch the video and see the transcript)
4. "Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)
5. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)
6. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008
7. "[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip)
9. "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional, radio interview with WMAL-AM, Oct. 31, 2008
10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council
the fundamental flaw...... GOVERNMENTS THINK IT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO CREATE JOBS.... IN ACTUALLY THEY SHOULD STEP OUT OF THE FACKIN WAY AND ALLOW THE MARKET TO DO IT!!!
it would cost less, and actually achieve the end goal. gov'ts only fack things up by creating bubbles and malinvestment which in the end become a drain on resources.... but the short term gains from any "new market or malinvestment" opportunity see to it that firms will compete tooth and nail in the short run for them because profitibility in the short term is possible from these as rallies are created.... game theory in essence (if you don't join in you lose in the short run and potentially in the long run... if you do join in you you face the same fate but at least you are even with your competition...) .... mean while down the road firms end up shooting themselves in the foot and governments end up shitting the communal bed they all sleep in...
The federal governments sole purpose is to protect us from outside aggression, other than that, they should leave the states (and their citizens) the fvck alone!
-Rocky-
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980: 10.5 million new jobs
etc.
etc.
The usual response:
Everything changed after 9/11 (even the stuff that happened before 9/11 ).
Just face if Gog, they don't live in the real world, they live in AM radio world, where all failings are caused by liberals. First if was black people, then it was commies, then it was hippies, now it's liberals, next it will be anyone but themselves.
__________________ "...let us not ignore the truth among ourselves, that we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down."
David Ben-Gurion (the father of Israel) "When fascism comes to America it will be draped in a flag and holding a cross." Sinclair Lewis I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all.
Hard to believe these jack offs. Treasonous, scandalous and cowardly bastards!
I watched the wanker pussy Lindsay Graham today... what a douche bag. The republicans offer pure crap to America. No shame, no responsibility and no clue. They get a guy the opposite of Bush, olive branch extended and still cant work with him because they're narrow, racist, stupid fvcktards!
I say ship them off to Pakistan and let them serve flat bread to like minded, backstabbing, treasonous cave dwellers.
"Before this ordeal, "torture" was an abstract word to me ... It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways all orchestrated by the United States government."
Nice legacy. The abuse of American Values by murderous, torturous constitution raping draft dodgers... simply unbelievable that some still think its good to match terrorism with terrorism.
The republicans, synonymous with medieval fvcktards..
Yeah, "I was just on my way to the corner market to buy some plastic explosives, when a black van picked me up.................."
-Rocky-
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Yeah, "I was just on my way to the corner market to buy some plastic explosives, when a black van picked me up.................."
-Rocky-
It used to require proof coRky! Now, we know you'd support and cheerlead a few hillbilly Abu Ghraib guards in their baseless accusations and cruel mentalities... Gee I guess thats worth destroying your country's value, values and credibility for... wait, my mistake, you and values? lol
Someone like you will never get it... ever. Slogans and simpleton sentences dont mean much in reality coRky. You think bunker mentality is good for the global stage... taint.
In the last few years, you donned your thong and waved your pom poms for failure... repeatedly. Complete, miserable failure that you were given clear, ample warning in order to avoid... yet, as we can all see, you'd have it again... ra ra ra coRky!
I hear the cigarette companies are looking for cheerleaders. Maybe you could do the splits for spying or lying,. Is there another regime change that could make you dress up again and practice your routines? You could be just as easily brainwashed to be the evil, brown skinned terrorist you hate so much.
How's it feel to ALWAYS be on the losing side of EVERY conflict?
(does it make you feel like more of a victim? Victimhood is a growing sport among lots of libs like yourself, I guess misery loves company.)
Ypu can rant and rave till yer blue in the face, but the strong will keep getting stronger and, well you know (and live) the rest.......
-Rocky-
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
The Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver says that you don't need a bunch of scientific data to know that kids without fathers fare poorly, all you have to do is take a look at the prison population.
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I think the message is that he is a self righteous TWAT who is probably fisting his neighbor's dog and collecting goat's balls.
I guess his logic is reaffirmed by the fact that a "fatherless" boy, a boy raised by a single mom, is his Commander and Chief. This "fatherless" boy is smart, confident and dedicated to his current family and nation...
Not that Mr. Staver doesnt have a valid argument for quality parenting, just that he looks like a pedophile.
I could pick apart Mat Staver's idiotic example but why waste the time?
He does look like a pedophile though, doesn't he?
__________________ "...let us not ignore the truth among ourselves, that we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down."
David Ben-Gurion (the father of Israel) "When fascism comes to America it will be draped in a flag and holding a cross." Sinclair Lewis I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all.
Yeah, "I was just on my way to the corner market to buy some plastic explosives, when a black man picked me up.................."
-Rocky-
Uhm, I didn't know you were into black men.
__________________ "...let us not ignore the truth among ourselves, that we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down."
David Ben-Gurion (the father of Israel) "When fascism comes to America it will be draped in a flag and holding a cross." Sinclair Lewis I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all.
I just don''t like the one in office (and color has ZERO to do with it, but I'm sure gag will tell you I'm a "racist"....... )
-Rocky-
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
I have always found right wing men a little confused: they hate "Commies" to the guts but implement politics that would have made Bolsheviks blush.
Lenin at least had the brains to admit that Communism was ruining an already ravaged country so he reinstituted private property and the gold standard in 1921: he didn't do this out of a true change of heart or because of his good will but simply because he didn't want to end up as bulletridden as the Czar.
These buffoons (don't worry, it's the same all over the world) keep on filling their mouths with words like "Communists ruined this country", "we stand for liberty", "our economy needs freedom" but the reality is that they are every bit as bad as they "left wing" comrades.
When is the last time you heard "citizens should have weapons and the full right to defend their homestead" or "we are going to lower taxes, cut on deficit spending and downsize the State" or "let's talk about going back to sound money"?
I have always found right wing men a little confused: they hate "Commies" to the guts but implement politics that would have made Bolsheviks blush.
Lenin at least had the brains to admit that Communism was ruining an already ravaged country so he reinstituted private property and the gold standard in 1921: he didn't do this out of a true change of heart or because of his good will but simply because he didn't want to end up as bulletridden as the Czar.
These buffoons (don't worry, it's the same all over the world) keep on filling their mouths with words like "Communists ruined this country", "we stand for liberty", "our economy needs freedom" but the reality is that they are every bit as bad as they "left wing" comrades.
When is the last time you heard "citizens should have weapons and the full right to defend their homestead" or "we are going to lower taxes, cut on deficit spending and downsize the State" or "let's talk about going back to sound money"?
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Yes, it all seems suspicious when you look at who is behind the shouts and screams. The cycle returns each generation and each time a slightly different version appears. I agree that everyone has their left and right wingers. I suppose they balance each other out and manage to fly this bird.
One thing I cannot bear easily is being called a left wing liberal when I am searching for facts or the truth. Right wingers seems to charge me with crimes in the same breath that they utter denials or ignore facts. I dont know why it is so hard for men to accept so many obvious realities. For example:
It seems that most right wingers believe in an authoritarian structure to their lives. This seems to be a common trait amongst the right wing characters. They are willing to accept many silly directives and easily dismiss obvious contradictions, improbabilities, fallacies and nonsensical fantasies as facts, "the truth" or "better than nothing". All this while shouting their assurances that the other side is the foolish, dangerous, dead wrong or crazy. Well now, we have seen a lot of this from them lately haven't we? They dont understand that many free men do not like authority rammed down their throat! Free men do not want spies everywhere or immoral compasses guiding them.
When I think of what right wingers are willing to do to other human beings, in the name of freedom, business or God, I just want to barf all over them. It is simple greed, ignorance and cowardice that drives them to achieve substandards of segregation and classification. Not what I call freedom at all. Yet, they are willing to break the law to achieve "security" or "peace". (Cops beating people) (Changing regimes)(torture and/or suspension of habeas corpus) They are willing to apply different standards to weaker nations and minorities. They are willing to kill people without a fair trial or justice. They have a self serving attitude that threatens all security because they cannot understand just how dangerous disparity between the classes is. They do not learn from history. They are the children of slave traders.
If I tell a right wing man that 99 times out of a hundred, a country turns to socialism or communism after imperialism and partisan, bureaucratic, material and financial corruption, this man calls me a commie! lol. The same men deny that they have caused this social shift because of their inept actions and ignorance of history! They deny their performance record! They deny their responsibility! They simply tell bold faced, unprecedented lies to solve their dilemmas!
I love racing because the finish line is the end of the road for the rhetoric and bullshit. YOU LOST THE RACE...take like a real man or take it like a right winger. For that moment and for that event, everyone can, and should, stop with their theories and their excuses... all that is left is to respect the wining teams win and promote the sport! Not, as the republicans do, spoil the sport with cheating, subversion, denials, polarity, accusations, lies, deconstructive and debilitating criticism and treachery. I wouldnt want that kind man on my team or in my sport!
Just take one look at the audacity of right wing American republicans... Chanting failure to the new government that is elected by a margin far greater than their party's (mandate..lol)margins and, considering the abysmal failure displayed during their eight years, one might expect some humility, contemplation and respect for those concerned with fixing the infrastructure of the sport, the institutions, the reputation and the future we all want.
Right wingers run government like AMA runs motorcycle racing. Pretty hard to take when you are used to MotoGP standards!
You are making 2 critical mistakes;
A) You assume we fvckin' CARE what you think.....(ALTHOUGH YOU CONTINUE TO BEAT DEAD HORSES.......)
B) clinton (gag, puke!) didn't come up with the "lock box" plan, it was al (yak, gag!) bore............
-Rocky-
You certainly seem to care. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it appears that you'd much rather this information wasn't posted. Data intruding on your unsupportable opinions maybe?
Failed Republicans...gheeesh
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