There's an interesting piece in the Wash Post today about Bush's anemic economic legacy, and it's worth a quick read, but the most interesting part is the chart, which appeared in the print paper but not in the interwebs version.
The chart lists total employment by presidency. In the post-World War II period, three presidents have overseen employment growth of greater than 20%. Wanna take a guess as to which three?
Truman, 21%; Johnson, 21.3%; and Clinton, 20.7%. Three liberal Democrats (Clinton was and wasn't, but comparatively speaking, he counts). Reagan tops the Republicans, but at 17.7%. Eisenhower, presiding over the supposedly wonderful 1950s, managed only 7.1% job growth.
I guess McCain was right last year. These big-government types don't know how to grow an economy. Dubya's number, by the way, is 2%, which makes him the worst of the bunch, although he gets a run for his money from his father, who clocked in at 2.4%. Go Jeb!
