Which Political Party Has Created More Private Sector Jobs?

[Lakhota]

The graph above is the work of Economist Steven Stoft of zFacts.com. It shows the average annual rate of private sector job creation during each spell that a party held the presidency. Dr. Stoft created this data by analyzing 72 years worth of jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 72 years was selected as the timeframe because each party has controlled the presidency for 36 of those 72 years. During those 36 years each, 58 million jobs have been created under Democratic presidents, but only 26 million jobs under Republican Presidents. That means that for all of modern American history, jobs have been created more than twice as fast when we have elected Democrats to the highest office.

Another way to look at the same data is to consider job growth in terms of the percentage change in the number of jobs held during the period that each party controls the executive branch:

Which Political Party Has Created More Jobs?

Job Creators

Study Finds That Electing Democrats Is The Best Way To Create Jobs

FACT: More Jobs are Created When Democrats are in Power

Well, there you have it, folks. Democrats create more jobs than Republicans!

 

[Wyatt earp]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

An idiot could of taken credit for the job growth after WWII

 

[whitehall]

Government jobs do not grow the economy. All they do is move confiscated taxpayer money around.

 

[CowboyTed]

The RW are going to go nuts....

You have screwed with there over simplification of life. They have been wrong for years and they struggle...

The real truth behind these graphs is that Democrats have been cleaning up GOP mess for years....

 

[Lakhota]

Government jobs do not grow the economy. All they do is move confiscated taxpayer money around.

Yes, government jobs do grow the economy! However, the OP is about private sector jobs.

Government jobs vs. private jobs: Which help the economy more?

 

[rdean]

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This is why Republicans can't grow jobs. They don't know what a job is. They don't know that 89 is more than 37. It's the whole "anti education" thing.

 

[Nyvin]

Government jobs do not grow the economy. All they do is move confiscated taxpayer money around.

Public Sector jobs have been declining throughout most of the last 6 years.

 

[Yarddog]

The graph above is the work of Economist Steven Stoft of zFacts.com. It shows the average annual rate of private sector job creation during each spell that a party held the presidency. Dr. Stoft created this data by analyzing 72 years worth of jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 72 years was selected as the timeframe because each party has controlled the presidency for 36 of those 72 years. During those 36 years each, 58 million jobs have been created under Democratic presidents, but only 26 million jobs under Republican Presidents. That means that for all of modern American history, jobs have been created more than twice as fast when we have elected Democrats to the highest office.

Another way to look at the same data is to consider job growth in terms of the percentage change in the number of jobs held during the period that each party controls the executive branch:

Which Political Party Has Created More Jobs?

Job Creators

Study Finds That Electing Democrats Is The Best Way To Create Jobs

FACT: More Jobs are Created When Democrats are in Power

Well, there you have it, folks. Democrats create more jobs than Republicans!

for the most part, neither one. Individuals and the market create jobs, The better question might be which political party inhibited job growth the least

 

[Lakhota]

Government jobs do not grow the economy. All they do is move confiscated taxpayer money around.

Public Sector jobs have been declining throughout most of the last 6 years.

Correct - due to Republican obstruction. Reagan and Dubya both has public jobs growth to help them out of recession - but not Obama.

 

[Pete7469]

I'm a DOD employee, my job is necessary but there is no incentive to be productive. In fact the incentive is to be minimally productive so that more money can be budgeted in the next fiscal year.

Contractors are even more corrupt though. The quality of what they do is designed to prolong their contracts.

The bottom line IMO though is that the government should be making welfare recipients work for a living, produce something for their benefits. Even if it's a minimally productive job.

 

[Lakhota]

I'm a DOD employee, my job is necessary but there is no incentive to be productive. In fact the incentive is to be minimally productive so that more money can be budgeted in the next fiscal year.

Contractors are even more corrupt though. The quality of what they do is designed to prolong their contracts.

The bottom line IMO though is that the government should be making welfare recipients work for a living, produce something for their benefits. Even if it's a minimally productive job.

Not all government employees are slugs like you describe. Again - the OP is about PRIVATE sector jobs.

 

[Lakhota]

Elect Democrats to create jobs.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

That data doesn't reflect the true picture because democrats tend to come in when unemployment is high. The resulting superior job growth is due to the fact that more jobs are added when you go from a low to high. High to high doesn't show a lot of job growth.

The same graph can easily show that republicans are in office during more prosperous times and if you consider that jfk and bill Clinton actually had pretty conservative economic philosophies then you can put them in the conservative side.

 

[Nyvin]

That data doesn't reflect the true picture because democrats tend to come in when unemployment is high. The resulting superior job growth is due to the fact that more jobs are added when you go from a low to high. High to high doesn't show a lot of job growth.

The same graph can easily show that republicans are in office during more prosperous times and if you consider that jfk and bill Clinton actually had pretty conservative economic philosophies then you can put them in the conservative side.

Democrats come in when unemployment is high because they inherited it from their Republican predecessor, Clinton was actually quite far to the left of both HW Bush and W Bush. Dunno about JFK...that was a different age.

Also you are wrong, unemployment sky-rocketed in Reagan's first couple years, and it also rose in the first few years of W Bush. If what you're saying is true (which is kind of a leap), then both Bush and Reagan had plenty of opportunity to add jobs.

 

[Lakhota]

The OP clearly shows that Democrats create many more private sector jobs!

 

[OKTexas]

The graph above is the work of Economist Steven Stoft of zFacts.com. It shows the average annual rate of private sector job creation during each spell that a party held the presidency. Dr. Stoft created this data by analyzing 72 years worth of jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 72 years was selected as the timeframe because each party has controlled the presidency for 36 of those 72 years. During those 36 years each, 58 million jobs have been created under Democratic presidents, but only 26 million jobs under Republican Presidents. That means that for all of modern American history, jobs have been created more than twice as fast when we have elected Democrats to the highest office.

Another way to look at the same data is to consider job growth in terms of the percentage change in the number of jobs held during the period that each party controls the executive branch:

Which Political Party Has Created More Jobs?

Job Creators

Study Finds That Electing Democrats Is The Best Way To Create Jobs

FACT: More Jobs are Created When Democrats are in Power

Well, there you have it, folks. Democrats create more jobs than Republicans!

Government doesn't create anything, they consume, the private sector gains or sheds jobs according to market demands.