Obama Created More Jobs In One Year Than Bush Created In Eight
This 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,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm 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.�
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/07/AR2011010702162.html?hpid=topnews
October and November�s jobs numbers were also revised upward by almost
80,000 each. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Still, 14.5 million Americans remain unemployed,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/business/economy/08jobs.html?_r=1&hp
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.�
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/01/boehner-v-pelosi-house-leaders-spar-over-significance-of-jobs-report.html
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:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/speakerpelosi/5333277156/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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.�
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/
And job creation under Bush was anemic long before the recession
began.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/bush_recession.html
Bush�s supply-side economics �fostered the weakest jobs and income
growth in more than six decades,�
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/pdf/picker_jobs.pdf
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.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/09/closing-the-book-on-the-bush-legacy/26402/
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We're finally emerging from the horrible Republican-created
near-depression.
Harry
We did that already. Now we are trying to recover from the Obama
created Democratic Depression.
> We did that already. Now we are trying to recover from the Obama
> created Democratic Depression.
Wow! Everything was just hunky-dory in 2007, right?
Darn that Obama for not cleaning up the damage Clinton did to the
economy fast enough!
Source: Think Progress
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
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/07/obama-more-jobs-bush
The Republicans in the Bush Administration created lots of jobs - in China
Tax cuts for the rich to increase employment overseas. The wealthiest
Americans live on easy street while the rest of us are living on credit
cards.
So, the Dubya's economy had 9.4% employment too?
Who'da thought?
>
> 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:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/speakerpelosi/5333277156/sizes/l/in/photostream/
I'm sorry, this charts only a few months: From Dec 07 to December 2010.
It's a good thing the US economy still isn't centrally planned...yet.
Otherwise it might actually matter who's president.
--
Neolibertarian
"[The American People] know that we don't have deficits
because people are taxed too little; we have deficits
because big government spends too much."
---Ronald Reagan
This 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.
When shrub left office the US was losing 700,000 jobs every month.
--
Ray Fischer | Mendacracy (n.) government by lying
rfis...@sonic.net | The new GOP ideal
obama can only create public sector jobs, he cannot create private
sector jobs...
bush and obama cannot create private sector jobs. the private sector
creates jobs, that's why it's called the "private sector".
ha ha ha. silly billy shots himself in the foot again.
jimmy, in the face of reality, demonstrates his mediocre intellect.
Interstate highway system.
> jimmy, in the face of reality, demonstrates his mediocre intellect.
and here, silly billy blames others for *his* idiocy.
even if it were true that the president was out there, like a captain
of industry, creating jobs, making the wheels of the economy turn, a
person could argue that obama had more room to grow considering the
economy was tanked when he took office.
but to stupid gullible fools like you, you actually believe he
controls something that's not in his control. but since people like
you blamed bush for a hurricane, i'm not surprised.
in the case of I-44 in oklahoma, one of the best maintained interstate
toll roads in the country, it's not true. privately managed,
maintained and funded. far exceeds the efficiency of government.
thanks for making the case for private roads. i often choose that
road, and pay the toll myself, because using it is less wear on my
trucks.
but i'll concede your point, that his initiative provided jobs for a
time in this regard; though those jobs should be handled privately. i
have since concluded that government has no business building roads
that don't have any purpose outside of getting to a post office.
> even if it were true
you haven't shown that a single comment in the article was not true,
nor can you, toadie.
the premise within the article is wrong. sure, obama can assign temp
work for jobs that already exist, but he isn't an entrepreneur, nor
does he run a private sector company. so by definition, he doesn't
"create" jobs unless he creates departments that hire government
workers, and those jobs don't create wealth, they only redistribute
wealth because they don't create a profit.
> On Jan 9, 6:11 pm, "james g. keegan jr." <jgkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article
> > you haven't shown that a single comment in the article was not true,
> > nor can you, toadie.
>
> the premise within the article is wrong.
"you haven't shown that a single comment in the article was not true,
nor can you, toadie."
dance, toadie, dance.
the article itself proves my point that you keep deleting dumb
dumb... the opening line says: "Obama Created More Jobs In One Year
Than Bush Created In Eight". this line is the lie, this line is
where i made my initial comment...
then in the very next line the article contradicts it's opening
statement by claiming: "This 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 u.s. economy ended the year by *ADDING*... what's that? not
obama? obama didn't order those jobs to be added? who added those
jobs? moron.
> On Jan 9, 9:39�pm, "james g. keegan jr." <jgkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article
> > <5acd414a-e358-4ec4-8f11-bfd330d95...@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
> > �william mosco <wm5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 9, 6:11 pm, "james g. keegan jr." <jgkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > In article
> > > > you haven't shown that a single comment in the article was not true,
> > > > nor can you, toadie.
> >
> > > the premise within the article is wrong.
> >
> > "you haven't shown that a single comment in the article was not true,
> > nor can you, toadie."
> >
> > dance, toadie, dance.
>
> the article itself proves my point that you keep deleting dumb
> dumb... the opening line says: "Obama Created More Jobs In One Year
> Than Bush Created In Eight". this line is the lie, this line is
> where i made my initial comment...
and here silly billy falls back on one of his old standards: he lies. ha
ha. poor silly billy.
evidence he deletes, responds with another lie..., <yawn>
> Neolibertarian <cogn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >In article <4q8fi6l3rfj490hgh...@4ax.com>,
> > Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Indeed, from February 2001, Bush’s first full month in office, through
> >> January 2009, his last, the economy added just 1 million jobs.
> >
> >So, the Dubya's economy had 9.4% employment too?
>
> When shrub left office the US was losing 700,000 jobs every month.
I know.
Ergo: capitalism is an evil failure.
--
Neolibertarian
"Global Warming: It ain't the heat, it's the stupidity.
> > When shrub left office the US was losing 700,000 jobs every month.
>
> I know.
>
> Ergo: capitalism is an evil failure.
Capitalism would have been nice; Bush should have tried it.
Over 3 million jobs were LOST during the Obama administration's first two
years.
> Over 3 million jobs were LOST during the Obama administration's first two
> years.
Before his reforms took effect. Google "bikini chart".
As Obama's stimulus package creates new jobs, the Bush Recession is
still clobbering old jobs. The dominoes don't all fall at once.
You have to give Bob an actual link to the bikini chart, otherwise
he'll only be distracted by all the pics of bikini-clad girls.
http://stevensonblog.blogs.tuscaloosanews.com/files/2010/06/4668683929_77773d55ff.jpg
It's the most recent one I could find, and with the increases of the
last six months, that surge bar should now be significantly higher
than where it was at the beginning of last summer.
> On Jan 9, 10:12�pm, "james g. keegan jr." <jgkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article
> > <dc516dd6-9fd3-45c7-9aa6-95b842fbb...@k11g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
> > �william mosco <wm5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 9, 9:39 pm, "james g. keegan jr." <jgkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > In article
> > > > <5acd414a-e358-4ec4-8f11-bfd330d95...@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
> > > > william mosco <wm5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > On Jan 9, 6:11 pm, "james g. keegan jr." <jgkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > In article
> > > > > > you haven't shown that a single comment in the article was not true,
> > > > > > nor can you, toadie.
> >
> > > > > the premise within the article is wrong.
> >
> > > > "you haven't shown that a single comment in the article was not true,
> > > > nor can you, toadie."
> >
> > > > dance, toadie, dance.
> >
> > > the article itself proves my point that you keep deleting dumb
> > > dumb... � the opening line says: "Obama Created More Jobs In One Year
> > > Than Bush Created In Eight". � this line is the lie, this line is
> > > where i made my initial comment...
> >
> > and here silly billy falls back on one of his old standards: he lies. ha
> > ha. poor silly billy.
>
> evidence he deletes, responds with another lie...,
and here silly billy posts two new lies.
<yawn>, jimmy is lying again...
Yeah, "those aren't gunsight cross-hairs, they are surveyor's transit
marks!"
We sure live in interesting times...
If they were just surveyor's marks, why was the image scrubbed from
the SarahPac blog less than an hour after the shootings?
> If they were just surveyor's marks, why was the image scrubbed from
> the SarahPac blog less than an hour after the shootings?
Sorry, Sarah. What happens on the internet STAYS on the internet!
> On Jan 10, 11:35�am, "james g. keegan jr." <jgkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article
> > > > and here silly billy falls back on one of his old standards: he lies.
> > > > ha
> > > > ha. poor silly billy.
> >
> > > evidence he deletes, responds with another lie...,
> >
> > and here silly billy posts two new lies.
>
> <yawn>, jimmy is lying again...
and here, silly billy is so used to lying that he dhows he can do it
while yawning.
Hear hear!
I know.
--
That's not enough. Bring back Bush.
> On Jan 7, 3:46 pm, Tracey12 <tracey12em...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We did that already. Now we are trying to recover from the Obama
> > created Democratic Depression.
>
> Wow! Everything was just hunky-dory in 2007, right?
>
> Darn that Obama for not cleaning up the damage Clinton did to the
> economy fast enough!
Well, the mystery of the Great Depression of the 1930's was its
persistence. GDP would not return to pre-1929 levels until 1939, but
even then unemployment was still a heartbreaking 17%. GDP would not
return to pre-1929 pace until after the Second Great War.
There are reasons to believe that the Panic of 1893 was far worse than
the conditions that led to the Great Depression. Yet in that earlier
case, recovery occurred in just a few years, not a decade.
One can never prove a premise like this in the field of economics, but
there are reasons to believe that Hoover's proto-New Deal and
Roosevelt's New Deal policies may have had a great deal to do with this
otherwise unexplained persistence.
People of Obama's generation (which sort of includes mine) have been
taught by their burnt out marsist tenured high school teachers that
"Roosevelt got us out of the Depression." Other, more realistic teachers
and college professors have claimed that "WWII got us out of the
Depression."
Neither appear to be correct when examining the actual economic evidence.
But the damage was already done, of course. Perceptions are funny
things, and once established they're mighty difficult to alter or
revise.
Hence, TARP, QE1, the "Great Stimulus Package Omnibus Bacchanalia,"
"Cash-For-Clunkers", "Foreclosure Moratoriums," Health Care Reform first
proposed by FDR, repeated calls for increasing taxes on "the Rich," and
QE2.
All of which can find startling parallels with government policies and
politics of the 1930's.
Learn to read, dumbass.
>> >> Indeed, from February 2001, Bush’s first full month in office, through
>> >> January 2009, his last, the economy added just 1 million jobs.
>> >
>> >So, the Dubya's economy had 9.4% employment too?
>>
>> When shrub left office the US was losing 700,000 jobs every month.
>
>I know.
>
>Ergo: capitalism is an evil failure.
You're pretty stupid.
Rightard rule #1: lie, lie again, lie more, lie about lying.
Tell us, rightard, since you know that your statement is, as best,
sleazy propaganda, why do you persist in repeating it? Is your
right-wing ideology so immoral, so corrupt, so anti-American that you
need to lie to people?
>>Over 3 million jobs were LOST during the Obama administration's first two
>>years.
>
> Rightard rule #1: lie, lie again, lie more, lie about lying.
>
> Tell us, rightard, since you know that your statement is, as best,
> sleazy propaganda, why do you persist in repeating it? Is your
> right-wing ideology so immoral, so corrupt, so anti-American that you
> need to lie to people?
The data is clear.
> > Tell us, rightard, since you know that your statement is, as best,
> > sleazy propaganda, why do you persist in repeating it? Is your
> > right-wing ideology so immoral, so corrupt, so anti-American that you
> > need to lie to people?
>
> The data is clear.
are clear
he didn't create those jobs dumb dumb. he hired a private contractor
that already employed people who had jobs previously. how is that
creating a job? i didn't say temporary "work"... learn to read dumb
ass...
jimmy denies his s.o.p. and then lies.
Short version: "Yes"
I didn't say he did, dumbshit.
The claim that the government cannot create jobs is a stupid lie that
only morons believe, because the obvious example that proves it wrong
is the interstate highway system. Build BY THE GOVERNMENT it is
absolutely essential to the US economy and has created millions of
jobs.
>
> The claim that the government cannot create jobs is a stupid lie
why don't you re-read the question i wrote above?
> that
> only morons believe, because the obvious example that proves it wrong
> is the interstate highway system. Build BY THE GOVERNMENT it is
> absolutely essential to the US economy and has created millions of
> jobs.
aside from the fact that such jobs only redistribute wealth, there is
no reason why the government needs to build roads. it's already
demonstrated that the private sector actually builds the roads
(companies hired to do the job); and those roads which are constantly
maintained by the private company and paid for through tolls are
better roads than roads the government has forced itself into the
market.
certainly you can always argue that the soviet union's government
created jobs.
> jimmy denies
and here silly billy posts a new lie.
Today, organic farmers, who are almost all liberals, get it.
The "dust bowl" didn't keep the US in a Depression.
Not only was the dust bowl not FDR's fault, neither was the Depression.
However, standing in the way of recovery, however well meaning he might
have been, was.
--
Neolibertarian
"[The American People] know that we don't have deficits
because people are taxed too little; we have deficits
because big government spends too much."
---Ronald Reagan