Originally posted by dems4me
Re look at the chart.
You're probably gone by now so you'll see this tomorrow.
Print out the chart and put it in front of you. Let's start with Ford (R) and his big ol' whopper spike in unemployment. That was most likely the guys coming back from Vietnam to no job prospects.
Under Ford, it starts to go down and continues downward until the middle of the Carter Administration (D), when unemployment starts going back up again. We were in a nasty recession at that time but you might not be old enough to remember it.
Under Carter, unemployment continues to rise until it peaks at 9.75% during Reagan's (R) first term. Then it goes down down down until it reaches about 5% in the first year or so of the first Bush Administration. Then, still under Bush, unemployment starts to rise again, up to 7.5%. Still under Bush, unemployment starts to go down, just in time for Clinton (D) to take over.
Under Clinton, unemployment keeps on it's downward trend, going as low as 3.8%. Then it starts to rise again during Clinton's last year in office and continues to rise under Bush.
I'm not crazy. I know what I see. Since the chart makers are trying to focus you on the spikes under Republican Presidents, you're not seeing the trend, i.e. the rise and fall, and who was President during that rise and fall.
I've heard quite a bit of talk about it.