# Does the economy really do better under 'pro-life and pro-family" candidates?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 30, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-economy-really-do-better-under-pro-life-and-pro-family-candidates/558864 "2010-10-30T12:55:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ramel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ramel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ramel)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-economy-really-do-better-under-pro-life-and-pro-family-candidates/558864/21 "2010-11-05T05:00:54Z")

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Have there been many anti-life anti-family candidates?

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-economy-really-do-better-under-pro-life-and-pro-family-candidates/558864/22 "2010-11-05T05:11:14Z")

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The best economy we’ve had in living memory was under Clinton. We had a near depression under GWB.

“Pro-family” doesn’t mean anything other than perhaps as code for “anti-gay.”

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**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-economy-really-do-better-under-pro-life-and-pro-family-candidates/558864/23 "2010-11-05T05:43:57Z")

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As I understand it, the right isn’t big on government intervention, preferring the economy to fix itself. I think they are more inclined to take credit for tax cuts and cuts in spending during expansion/recovery periods but aren’t willing to let government transfers or deficit spending shift aggregate demand so that the economy can get out of recessions faster.

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