Lincoln didn't represent the people of the confederate south, (who are and have always been the most racist people in America)neither did the republican party back then.
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Lincoln didn't represent the people of the confederate south, (who are and have always been the most racist people in America)neither did the republican party back then.
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"Tony Stark, post: 4668576, member: 495092"]Millions of republicans feel the same way they just don't announce it publicly because it would hurt them economically and other ways.
How do you know how millions of Republicans feel?
"Tony Stark, post: 4668578, member: 495092"]They were founded by and were mostly confederate state southerners who the democratic party previously represented but the republican party does now.
Throughout history there has been radical elements that may make a big noise, but do not represent the majority view. The key is to remain vigliant against these groups to keep their views from becoming prominent. This is why I support Trump. The radical Left ideology is spreading to mainstream Democratic politics. The Radical Left's message is harmful to our society and to our economy.
"Tony Stark,
Lincoln didn't represent the people of the confederate south (who are and have always been the most racist people in America)neither did the republic
I remember my high school history books talking about the reasons for the Civil War. Although this happened 150 years ago, there still seems to be current political wrangling over the role of each side. The perceived political stakes on this are high, but the fact remains: It appears the Democratic Party is unjustifiably using race as a reason why they should be granted the privilege of leading the American people.
"Tony Stark, post: 4668576, member: 495092"]Millions of republicans feel the same way they just don't announce it publicly because it would hurt them economically and other ways.
How do you know how millions of Republicans feel?
"Tony Stark, post: 4668578, member: 495092"]They were founded by and were mostly confederate state southerners who the democratic party previously represented but the republican party does now.
Throughout history there has been radical elements that may make a big noise, but do not represent the majority view. The key is to remain vigliant against these groups to keep their views from becoming prominent. This is why I support Trump. The radical Left ideology is spreading to mainstream Democratic politics. The Radical Left's message is harmful to our society and to our economy.
"Tony Stark,
Lincoln didn't represent the people of the confederate south (who are and have always been the most racist people in America)neither did the republic
I remember my high school history books talking about the reasons for the Civil War. Although this happened 150 years ago, there still seems to be current political wrangling over the role of each side. The perceived political stakes on this are high, but the fact remains: It appears the Democratic Party is unjustifiably using race as a reason why they should be granted the privilege of leading the American people.
The party that represents the confederate south have shown throughout history they shouldn't be leading the American people.
https://www.thebalance.com/job-creation-by-president-by-number-and-percent-3863218
Which President Created the Most Jobs?
12 Presidents' Jobs Creation by Number and Percent
By Kimberly Amadeo
Updated February 15, 2018
Which president created the most jobs? You must look at percent as well as the total number of jobs generated to compare presidents over time. It's much easier to create lots of jobs today since the economy is bigger. For example, there were 143.1 million people working in 2015. That's 10 times more than the 31.5 million employed in 1939 (the earliest year counted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
With that in mind, Bill Clinton created the most number of jobs (23.2 million) during his term. Barack Obama is second, creating 17.2 million jobs from the beginning to the end of his term. But Obama created 22.3 million jobs from the worst part of the Great Recession (January 2010) through the end of his term. Unemployment continued to rise even after the recession ended in July 2009. That's typical. Some companies continue to shed workers even after the economy turns around. They want to make sure the recession is truly over before they start hiring again.
Lyndon B. Johnson added the most jobs percentage-wise (20.7 percent) during his two terms. Franklin Roosevelt created the most percentage-wise (32.7 percent) since the depths of the Great Depression. But, it's not fair to use that because he was in office for more than two terms.
A president's record at job creation depends somewhat on the business cycle. For example, those who inherited a recession, like Clinton, Obama, Reagan, Carter and LBJ, did better at job creation. They started with a low base, and so had nowhere to go but up. Those that created recessions, like both Bushes, Nixon, and Eisenhower, did the worst.
Presidents have many tools to create jobs. The most important tools are expansive fiscal policy, especially deficit spending. Government spending can employ people directly and through contracting. That will encourage the private sector to hire through greater demand from consumers. But all presidents must have Congressional budget approval before they can spend.
A president does have one unique tool as the leader of the free world. He can inspire confidence through a compelling vision. A president who can articulate a message that reverses doubt and pessimism will be successful in creating jobs.
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Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
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Clinton added 21.5 million jobs, a 19.6 percent increase. There were 131 million people employed in December 1999, the end of his term. That's 21.5 million more than the 109.5 million employed at the beginning of his term.
Unlike most presidents, he did this through contractionary fiscal policy. He presided over eight years of steady economic growth without adding to the debt. He created a surplus, reducing the debt by $63 billion. His Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 raised the top tax rate from 28 percent to 36 percent for high-income earners. He increased the top corporate tax rate from 34 percent to 36 percent. He created the earned income tax credit for low-income families and raised the gas tax by $.043 per gallon.
At the same time, he cut welfare spending. Recipients had to get jobs after two years. His policies cut the number on welfare by two-thirds, to 4.5 million, by 2004. Clinton created 14 practical ideas to create jobs.
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Barack Obama (2009-2017)
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President Obama created 17.267 million jobs by the end of December 2016, a 12.8 percent increase. There were 152.111 million people employed at the end of his term. That's compared to 134.844 million working at the end of the Bush Administration.
But that doesn't give the total picture. The economy lost 8.7 million jobs as a result of the 2008 financial crisis. It kept shedding them until January 2010. Since that low point, Obama created 22.309 million jobs, a 17.2 percent increase.
Obama attacked the Great Recession with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It created jobs through public works. Many of those jobs were in construction. That successfully reduced the unemployment rate. But that meant Obama increased the debt by $7.9 trillion, a 67 percent increase. That drove the debt to GDP ratio to 104 percent.
It didn't stimulate demand as much as creating the same number of better paying high-tech jobs. In fact, jobs created after the last few recessions have led to greater income inequality, as re-hired workers became willing to take jobs that paid less. The high level of long-term unemployed and underemployed meant that trend only continued.
Job creation would have been stronger during Obama's term if Congress hadn't passed sequestration. In his last FOMC meeting, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke noted that these austerity measures forced the government to shed 600,000 jobs in four years. In the prior recovery, the economy added 400,000 jobs during the same period.
Obama outline his job creation strategies in his State of the Union Addresses and the American Jobs Act.
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Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
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Reagan added 15.9 million jobs during his eight-year term, a 17.6 percent increase. There were 106.9 million people working in December 1988 compared to 91 million in December 1980.
He responded to the 1981 recession with Reaganomics. This was expansive fiscal policy based on supply-side economics. Reagan cut the top income tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent. He also cut the top corporate tax rate from 48 percent to 34 percent. He increased government spending by 2.5 percent a year. His policies doubled the debt. For more, see , Does Trickle-Down Economics Work?, and the Laffer Curve.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
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Johnson added 11.9 million jobs to the 57.36 million employed in December 1963. That's a 20.7 percent increase.
LBJ spent on social programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the War on Poverty. That increased the debt by 13 percent. By the time he left office, the economy was growing a robust 4.9 percent. That created a 4.7 percent inflation rate.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
Roosevelt added 10.3 million jobs, a 32.7 percent increase over the 31.5 million workers since 1939. (That's as far back as the jobs numbers go.) This was after he created the New Deal to end the Great Depression. FDR also built up the economy to enter World War II.
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Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
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Nixon added 8.8 million jobs to the 69.246 million workers at the end of the Johnson Administration. That's a 12.7 percent increase.
He initially presided over a growing economy. Americans celebrated by importing more goods. As they paid in dollars, foreigners started redeeming them for gold. The Bretton Woods Agreement guaranteed an ounce of gold for every $35. The United States could not redeem the $45.7 billion in global dollars, since it only held $14.5 billion in gold. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to defend the gold standard, but that created the 1970 recession.
Nixon ordered a 90-day freeze on wages and prices, which worsened the recession. He soon abandoned the gold standard completely. That created double-digit inflation, as the dollar's value plummeted to $120 per ounce of gold.
Nixon won re-election, but his actions created the 1973 recession, coupled with double-digit inflation. That situation is called stagflation. Nixon resigned on August 8, 1974, due to the Watergate scandal.
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Harry Truman (1945-1953)
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Truman added 8.3 million jobs, a 19.8 percent increase. He added $7 billion to the debt to fight two recessions. The end of World War II caused the 1945 recession, which reappeared in 1949.
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Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)
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Eisenhower added 3.6 million jobs, a 7.1 percent increase. He increased the debt by 9 percent, or $23 billion, to fight two recessions. The end of the Korean War caused the 1953 recession. High interest rates caused the 1957 recession.
Part of Eisenhower's success with job creation was due to his creation of the Interstate Highway System. He spent $25 billion to build 41,000 miles of road.
Research shows that public works construction is one of the best uses of federal funds to create jobs. One billion dollars spent on public transportation creates 19,795 construction jobs. It's a better unemployment solution than income tax cuts, which only creates 10,779 jobs for the same price.
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John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
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Kennedy added 3.6 million jobs, a 6.7 percent increase. His inaugural speech created confidence. He endorsed deficit spending, increasing the debt by 8.6 percent. He raised the minimum wage, improved Social Security benefits, and passed an urban renewal package. That ended the 1960 recession he inherited from Eisenhower.
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George W. Bush (2001-2009)
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President Bush created 2.1 million jobs during his eight-year term. That's because he struggled with two recessions. He lost 3.6 million jobs in 2008, his last year in office. The job gains were before that, as he recovered from the 2001 recession. He responded to it with stimulus checks and the Bush tax cuts. Neither of these are the best ways to create jobs. He was helped by low interest rates from Alan Greenspan's expansive monetary policy.
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One-Term Presidents
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Presidents who only served one term had less time to create jobs.
George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) added 2.6 million jobs, a 17.6 percent increase. He added $1.5 trillion to the debt, a 54 percent increase.
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) added 10.5 million jobs, a 13 percent increase. He did that by adding $299 billion to the $699 billion debt, a 43 percent increase.
Gerald Ford (1974-1977) added 2.4 million jobs, a 3.1 percent increase. He inherited the 1973 recession from President Nixon. He added $224 billion to the U.S. debt, which was a 47 percent increase.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/democrat-vs-republican-stock-market-returns-2015-12
The stock market loves Democratic presidents more than Republicans
Myles Udland
Dec. 20, 2015, 6:08 AM
Democratic presidents are better for stocks than Republicans.
In its year-ahead outlook, analysts at Bespoke looked at the effect Washington can and does have on the stock market. And, at least when looking at a simple breakdown of the party in the White House and the returns on Wall Street, there is no argument: Democrats are better.
Here's Bespoke (emphasis added):
With such strong returns so far during President Obama's tenure, the issue of which party is better for the stock market is less and less debatable. As we have noted in prior Bespoke Reports, in both of his election campaigns, there was a widespread view that President Obama and Democrats in general would be bad for the stock market. Yet, here we are seven years later looking at a gain of nearly 125% for the DJIA since President Obama took office.
There really shouldn't be any debate; on a historical basis, Democratic presidents are better for the stock market. The saying that Republican Presidents are better than Democrats for investors continues to be one of the bigger misconceptions there is in the investment world.
Why would you compare 8 years of Obama to a year of Trump you dumb philistine.
Black unemployment was 10.4% when Obama was in office in Jan 2015 and he reduced that by 24% to 8.2 % in a year and half
And that's from the data you linked.
And you call yourself a scientist?
Philistine? Please. I told you before to go back and redo 4th grade math and you should have listened.
First of all, going from 10.4% to 8.2% is a reduction of 21%, not 24%.
Second, since you're cherry picking, a month later black unemployment was back up to 8.7% which makes the reduction from 10.4% only 16%.
Finally, I compared 8 years of Obama to a year and a half of Trump (not a year as you claimed) because those are their ENTIRE records to date.
You're an idiot, AK Forty Seven/Tony Stark.
Everyone is racist in some way. Some more than others. If you have a preference in the race or type of man/woman you find attractive, guess what? Racist! Don't like fat women? Discriminatory! Wouldn't date an old man? Ageist!
I'm not defending this woman whose comments I didn't read - as far as I'm concerned, she should get sacked just for being dumb enough to post stuff on Facebook. But when you make comments about how Republicans are the racist party, you show yourself to be the race whistler that everyone on the left is - and the hypocrite. The only thing missing from this thread is Covertibility with a Whitey comment. You wastes of oxygen are all the same.
Everyone is racist in some way. Some more than others. If you have a preference in the race or type of man/woman you find attractive, guess what? Racist! Don't like fat women? Discriminatory! Wouldn't date an old man? Ageist!
I'm not defending this woman whose comments I didn't read - as far as I'm concerned, she should get sacked just for being dumb enough to post stuff on Facebook. But when you make comments about how Republicans are the racist party, you show yourself to be the race whistler that everyone on the left is - and the hypocrite. The only thing missing from this thread is Covertibility with a Whitey comment. You wastes of oxygen are all the same.