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"Truth" #1. Democrats are fiscally irresponsible ­

Tax and spend, wine and cheese, never met a public program they didn’t like. But guess what? Historically, the economy has always done better under Democrats than Republicans.

In his book "Had Enough?" James Carvill states "If you take the last 14 presidents, you have 8 Republicans and 6 Democrats. Every single Democrat has a better record of job creation than any single Republican. I went and had a couple of statisticians calculate the odds of this happening randomly. It turns out its 3 in 10,000."

The President with the worst record for job creation? Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression. The second and third? George Bush Jr. and George Bush Sr. who, between the two of them have not added one net new job to the American economy.

Clinton is a good example, not only because he's sandwiched between worst performer #3 and worst performer #2, but also because he had one of the best economic records of any president. Yet even though he was in office for nearly a decade, if you listen to the GOP tell it, he somehow is NOT responsible for his own economic boom, and yet he somehow IS responsible for a recession that Bush inherited. This is especially amazing since the National Bureau of Economic Research officially said the recession didn't begin until March of 2001. I thought Clinton had some impressive political chops, but I had no idea he had the power to actually begin an entire economic downturn once removed from office. Wasn't it bad enough that while in office he spayed off our National debt, creating a surplus (yes, we did have one not too long ago) and reversing the Reaganomics “trickle down” theories which have historically only succeeded in making the rich richer and putting homeless people on the streets.

With Clinton, everyone got richer because of a the simple idea “when everyone does better, everyone does better. So if you are rich, like "I own a corporation rich, there are some examples of what I mean by this statement:

If you raise minimum wage = more people can afford to buy your products.
If you outsource jobs to find cheaper labor = you will pay more to support jobless Americans on welfare.
So you don't WANT to pay for welfare? = you will watch your crime rate soar, your car get ripped off, and your insurance premiums increase.
(Wait, that reminds me, under Clinton, crime rates also dropped to record lows in every Crime Index category.)

Pretty simple cause and effect stuff here, yet Republicans have repeatedly dangled the quick payoff “get a small tax rebate in the mail” in front of voters without thinking at all big picture.

P.S. - The reason so many people boycott Walmart, follows some of these same principles . . . the corporation, at it's current pace is not sustainable for us or them. Jim Hightower explains this the best.