I nicked this image from a post by Devilstower at the loco liberal website DailyKos.com but if the job numbers can be trusted it tells a sad story about Republican
voters.
The chart tells us, first, that Democrat presidents are statistically better at job creation than Repub presidents. Second, it tells us that Republican voters are morons to vote for Republican presidential candidates because invariably a Republican in the White House means fewer jobs for Americans. What is more important to our strength as a country than jobs?
So, why does anyone vote for Republicans if they mean less jobs for Americans?
Is Al Qaeda that scary?
The Republicans only made it so far because they distracted those poor saps who voted for them. Yeah, there are those super-wealthy douches who know what they're doing when they vote for the GOP, but those working people out in the Midwest and the South are only distracted with flag waving and morals. Somehow, the GOP's politicians claim to be good, ordinary people and their working American constituents buy it. Unfortunately, they're the ones who get screwed, as deregulation and other financial incentives make it possible to cut American jobs and also have predatory banking policies. They are effective at screwing the majority of people who voted for them.
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I know they're being manipulated (we all are, really) but it's still a shock to me that these "good, solid, salt-of-the-earth" people are too stupid to do any research--not a SINGLE nerd in the Republican party did any research on jobs. Or if they did, they sat on what they found and didn't raise a big stink. Either way, it seems like "integrity" is in short supply among conservatives. Some seem like such nice people, too!
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