Guess which presidents killed manufacturing jobs in the last 20 years? Their names are Bush

[deminks]

http://www.americablog.com/2011/12/guess-which-presidents-killed.html

Newt Gingrich is off claiming, with an unflappable voice of authority, of course, that President Obama has killed manufacturing jobs for three years now. Except that, according to independent fact-checker Politifact, Newt would be wrong. Oh but it gets better. Which presidents have increased manufacturing jobs, and which have killed them, over the past 24 years? Take a look at the list from Politifact:

Barack Obama: Increase of 157,368 manufacturing jobs per year in office
George W. Bush: Decrease of 434,143 manufacturing jobs per year in office

Bill Clinton: Increase of 37,143 manufacturing jobs per year in office
George H.W. Bush: Decrease of 336,000 manufacturing jobs per year in office

Ronald Reagan: Increase of 1,429 manufacturing jobs per year in office
Jimmy Carter: Increase of 15,333 manufacturing jobs per year in office

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note these are per year.

[surrealAmerican]

1. k & r

I was surprised the Reagan had an increase, even a very small one. The rest are pretty much as expected.

[izquierdista]

2. They were all in the jelly-bean industry

It's very labor intensive gathering them up from under the cages of the jelly-rabbits.