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"[...] I mentioned a study that came out last year. The study was about the lies that parents tell their children. I used as my example the one about the existence of a tooth fairy, pointing out that my own son knows that I am the tooth fairy, and is pretty blunt about telling others so.

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"At the end of the services that day, no fewer than five parents came up to me, leant over and said that it was a great sermon, but that they had told their child who had been in the room and listening, that *I* (Rabbi Alana) was the tooth fairy."

-- kolraashgadol, 2010-09-12

If the economy performs better under Democratic presidents than under Republican presidents, then why does the Republican party have the reputation as bieng the more "pro-business" party? Don't businesses in general do better when the economy as a whole does better? Don't business owners do better? (That last question is rhetorical. One of those links goes to that recent graph showing how folks in every income bracket have done better during Democratic administrations, even the top, the big difference being that in Democratic administrations the rich do a little better than they do under Republican administrations, while the poor do a lot better than they do under Republicans.) Shouldn't the Democrats be considered the good-for-business party?

Then again, perhaps the difference is that the Republicans give businesses what they ask for while Democrats give them what's good for business? A disturbing thought, since the captains of industry are supposed to be good at business, and be better able to figure out what's in their best interests than that.

(For what it's worth, all those links are simply copied from the first page or results when I searched Google using the string "economy performs better under democratic or republican presidents". I had been expecting at least a couple of links to pages explaining how Democrats were better by one metric and Republicans better by another (one page did say, "Democrats scored better here if we assume X, and Republicans if we assume Y" for some metrics), or trying to show that the wrong metrics were being used. In the first page of results, at least from skimming the pages found, it looks like all the hits support the conclusion that Democratic presidents are better for the American economy, to varying degrees of emphasis.)