Like Rush Limbaugh, Larry Kudlow doesn't accurately remember the Reagan era.
It's embarrassing coming from these self-appointed spokesmen for Ronald Reagan.
Unlike Limbaugh, however, Kudlow actually served in the Reagan Administration so he really ought to know better, but today on the radio he kept saying that the jobs created in February 2018 (313,000) don't get any better than that.
Flashback to February 1984: jobs added 481,000. Or February 1988: jobs added 453,000.
Need more?
June 1983: +379,000. July 1983: +418,000. September 1983: +1.115 MILLION.
1.115 MILLION!
IN ONE MONTH!
Do I need to go on?
Yes, I think I do.
November 1983: +353,000.
December 1983: +356,000.
January 1984: +446,000.
April 1984: +363,000.
June 1984: +379,000.
July 1984: +313,000.
November 1984: +349,000.
March 1985: +346,000.
July 1986: +318,000.
September 1986: +347,000.
April 1987: +338,000.
July 1987: +347,000.
October 1987: +492,000.
June 1988: +363,000.
September 1988: +339,000.
November 1988: +339,000.
The current jobs boom isn't a boom, not yet, not by a longshot, and is NOTHING like the Reagan era, and Kudlow is doing a disservice to the historical record in which he played a part.
You've become a political hack, Larry.
