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Anne Bonney:
--- Quote from: "Whooter" --- Someone who can get us back on track and kick start the economy with jobs
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http://www.truth-out.org/obama-created- ... eight66660
Yesterday morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowest rate since July 2009. The “surprising drop — which was far better than the modest step-down economists had forecast — was the steepest one-month fall since 1998.” October and November’s jobs numbers were also revised upward by almost 80,000 each. Still, 14.5 million Americans remain unemployed, and jobs will have to be created much faster in coming months for the country to pull itself out of the economic doldrums.
Responding the jobs report, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) noted that President Obama and the Democratic Congress have created “more jobs in 2010 than President Bush did over eight years.”
Indeed, from February 2001, Bush’s first full month in office, through January 2009, his last, the economy added just 1 million jobs. By contrast, in 2010 alone, the economy added at least 1.1 million jobs. This chart, produced by Pelosi’s office, demonstrates the difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration on jobs:
As the Wall Street Journal noted in the last month of Bush’s term, the former president had the “worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records.” And job creation under Bush was anemic long before the recession began. Bush’s supply-side economics “fostered the weakest jobs and income growth in more than six decades,” along with “sluggish business investment and weak gross domestic product growth,” the Center for American Progress’ Joshua Picker explained. “On every major measurement” of income and employment, “the country lost ground during Bush’s two terms,” the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein observed, parsing Census data.
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Anne Bonney" ---
I'm disappointed in a lot of things he's done (or rather, hasn't done), but ya gotta give credit where credit is due.
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Your graph is just a small snap shot that does not contain the Bush years.
Unemployment (Below) is the problem that I would like to see addressed by the next president (after Obama leaves). We need to get people back to work.
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Dysfunction Junction:
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---
--- Quote from: "Anne Bonney" ---
I'm disappointed in a lot of things he's done (or rather, hasn't done), but ya gotta give credit where credit is due.
--- End quote ---
Your graph is just a small snap shot that does not contain the Bush years.
Unemployment (Below) is the problem that I would like to see addressed by the next president (after Obama leaves). We need to get people back to work.
...
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Sooo...that BIG RED BAR GRAPH labeled "Bush Administration" must cover the Reagan years or something, right?
Seriously, are you THAT stupid or just playing it up for the crowd? I don't even care about this thread, but if you can't read the graph, then you ought to reserve comment, IMHO. When you ask an idiot a question you should expect idiocy as the response.
Froderik:
I'll see if i can nail this one verbatim, from memory:
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Mark Twain
Dysfunction Junction:
--- Quote from: "Froderik" ---I'll see if i can nail this one verbatim, from memory:
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Mark Twain
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Whooter: "That's funny, Frod, but your quote is just a snapshot and doesn't cover Mark Twain."
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