Why do Republicans love higher unemployment?

[Zinfandel]

Poll question: Why do Republicans love higher unemployment?

Every Republican administration always has higher unemployment than a Democratic administration that came before it, and that came after it.

Before Truman was Democrat Roosevelt, and before Roosevelt, the disatrous unemployment under Republican Herbert Hoover. (Need I go further back?)

Truman First Term: 60,000 jobs gained per month

Truman Second Term: 113,000 jobs gained per month

Eisenhower First Term: 58,000 jobs gained per month

Eisenhower Second Term: 15,000 jobs gained per month

Kennedy: 122,000 jobs gained per month

Johnson: 206,000 jobs gained per month

Nixon First Term: 129,000 jobs gained per month

Nixon/Ford : 105,000 jobs gained per month

Carter: 228,000 jobs gained per month

Reagan First Term: 109,000 jobs gained per month

Reagan Second Term: 224,000 jobs gained per month

G. Bush: 52,000 jobs gained per month

Clinton First Term: 242,000 jobs gained per month

Clinton Second Term: 235,000 jobs gained per month

G.W. Bush : 69,000 jobs LOST per month

[Atman]

1. You forgot...

"Everything's changed since 9/11" and "Bush just inherited the bad economy Clinton created."

[Zinfandel]

2. Yes, The lie of all lies!

[journalist3072]

13. The mother of all lies indeed

I was soooooo freakin pissed off during the general election last year. One night, CNN had a town hall meeting with undecided voters. And they had representatives from both campaigns. Liz Cheney was representing the Repugs, and Kiki McClean was representing the Kerry campaign.

Anyway, Liz Cheney was being so dishonest; she was going on and on about how George Bush inherited a recession from President Clinton. And all Kiki McClean could do was shake her head in disgust. I'm sitting there watching it on tv, and yelling at Kiki McClean, thinking "Don't just shake your damn head. Fact check that biotch and tell those undecided voters that the Bureau of Economic Research determined that the last recession started in March 2001, on George Bush's watch."

That is how the Repugs get away with so many lies. We don't fact check them and call them on their lies.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. It makes for cheap labor

As when there are lots of people looking for work one is not in a position of negotiating a good wage.

[Rush1184]

8. Exactly!

[Gman]

4. They retain more of the available wealth

and it doesn't come down to the lower levels.

[LaPera]

12. It's Republican planned economics.

[mim]

5. All of the above

I'm a newbie so I can't vote in this poll, but if I could, I would vote "All of the above."

[newyawker99]

10. Hi mim!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[B Calm]

6. Desperate people will work for less money. This is why we call

the republicans as the party who supports cheap labor!

[Octafish]

7. Supply un Demand.

More people looking for fewer jobs depresses wage scale.

The NAZIs didn't like unions, too.

[mim]

11. Hi!

Thank you, Newyawker99! If I had seen the poll choices while I was writing the message, I would have said, all of the above, ESPECIALLY #2.

[PurityOfEssence]

9. It's not enough to be well-off, most other people have to be failures

It's a bunch of things, the header of this being one unspoken truth: conservatism is selfishness, and selfishness often comes with a hunger to get all the attention and all the resources. A world where they could have all the money they wanted but where nobody starved or wanted too much would still be hell for them; they need constant proof that they're superior.

It makes people scared of losing his/her job, so employees are compliant slaves.

They're inferior and they deserve it.

It helps destroy unions.

It puts fear and desperation in peoples' lives which can be exploited for racism, wars and legislative larceny.

It's fun to watch sub-humans suffer.

It's a wonderful thing to get people to knuckle under and toe the line.

There's nothing better to drive wages down than rampant unemployment.

Ripping the wings off of flies and dropping them in water just isn't that much fun after awhile.