[fluffy]

The authors have engaged in a little bait and switch here. First they analyze job performance over the term of Bush's presidency (a perfectly valid topic), but then in their conclusion they switch over and try to pretend that they're analyzing the results of Bush's tax cut. If you want to see how the tax cuts have affected the economy, you have to look at the period in which the tax cuts were in effect: that's 2003-2006, NOT 2001-2006. Since the authors are using net job gains, the 2001-2002 period of massive job loss contributes to their predetermined conclusion by allowing them to deflate the actual gains made after the cuts.

[ChessExpert]

Good point fluffy!

Going back to their bar charts. Actual job growth 2 Million! The American Enterprise Magazine had an article that compared job growth in European socialist countries (France, Germany, Italy) to the US over the past four decades. The difference was something like +4OM for the US and under +1M for socialist Europe. Back to the bar chart ACTUALS, +2 Million is phenomenally good! And it didn't come from tax, spend, regulate socialism of the Democrats.