First, let’s be clear that you are showing job creation and not the total number of jobs. There could have easily been more private sector jobs total while the creation of public sector jobs saw the most growth.
Also, what change do you see there? You see a change is where the jobs are created. That’s not the change we are looking for chenille. One management style prefers creating private sector jobs and another thinks the public sector is better. That’s not change, that’s lateral movement at best. Also, you label them by president when it is congress who enacts law.
The interpretation of the data is not a black and white as you would lead us to believe either.
From Truman to Ike we had the end of a war and millions of soldiers coming home to no jobs. Post war America didn’t have the private sector jobs to absorb those workers. So, we decided to create a highway system and employ those soldiers.
Kennedy got us in to a war and Nixon and Ford dealt with the returning soldiers.
Carter reduced the size of government to where unemployment went rampant and Reagan/Bush opened those jobs back up.
Clinton presided over the tech boom and Bush the tech bust.
It’s simply cyclic with the leaders being co-incidental to the actual events at hand.
As I see it, things are getting worse here in America and the major change I’ve noted is the rise in rabid partisanship and divisiveness. This creates and environment where extremist policies are able to be enacted which harm everyone but those at the top. Going back to the rational conservative and liberal, the difference in the direction they face evil is a good thing. One side can watch out for their fears and the other their own. They could work together complementarily to protect against what they fear. But, that’s not possible in a divisive state.
A nation divided cannot stand.
