Look: I am eager to learn stuff I don't know--which requires actively courting and posting smart disagreement.

But as you will understand, I don't like to post things that mischaracterize and are aimed to mislead.

-- Brad Delong

Copyright Notice

Everything that appears on this blog is the copyrighted property of somebody. Often, but not always, that somebody is me. For things that are not mine, I either have obtained permission, or claim fair use. Feel free to quote me, but attribute, please. My photos and poetry are dear to my heart, and may not be used without permission. Ditto, my other intellectual property, such as charts and graphs. I'm probably willing to share. Let's talk. Violators will be damned for all eternity to the circle of hell populated by Rosanne Barr, Mrs Miller [look her up], and trombonists who are unable play in tune. You cannot possibly imagine the agony. If you have a question, email me: jazzbumpa@gmail.com. I'll answer when I feel like it. Cheers!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Republicans, All Wrong, All the Time, Pt 32 - Obama Has No Jobs Plan

This is one of the many lies we get from the damned lying liars in the clown car passing for the slate of Rethug presidential candidates.

Here is the truth.





Here's Andrew Sullivan:

On the economy, the facts are these. When Obama took office, the United States was losing around 750,000 jobs a month. The last quarter of 2008 saw an annualized drop in growth approaching 9 percent. This was the most serious downturn since the 1930s, there was a real chance of a systemic collapse of the entire global financial system, and unemployment and debt—lagging indicators—were about to soar even further. No fair person can blame Obama for the wreckage of the next 12 months, as the financial crisis cut a swath through employment. Economies take time to shift course.


But Obama did several things at once: he continued the bank bailout begun by George W. Bush, he initiated a bailout of the auto industry, and he worked to pass a huge stimulus package of $787 billion.
All these decisions deserve scrutiny. And in retrospect, they were far more successful than anyone has yet fully given Obama the credit for. The job collapse bottomed out at the beginning of 2010, as the stimulus took effect. Since then, the U.S. has added 2.4 million jobs. That’s not enough, but it’s far better than what Romney would have you believe, and more than the net jobs created under the entire Bush administration. In 2011 alone, 1.9 million private-sector jobs were created, while a net 280,000 government jobs were lost. Overall government employment has declined 2.6 percent over the past 3 years. (That compares with a drop of 2.2 percent during the early years of the Reagan administration.) To listen to current Republican rhetoric about Obama’s big-government socialist ways, you would imagine that the reverse was true. It isn’t.

Link to Part 31.

3 comments:

Jerry Critter said...

And he has accomplished this with republicans fighting him all the way.

The Arthurian said...

Your graph is prettier.

"No fair person can blame Obama for the wreckage of the next 12 months, as the financial crisis cut a swath through employment."

Agreed, but it makes me wonder:
If Bush is responsible for "the next 12 months" after Obama's inauguration, then is Bush responsible for the improvement clearly visible in all of 2009? ??

Just a thought...

Jazzbumpa said...

From the data in your link

2009-01-01 -820
2009-02-01 -726
2009-03-01 -796
2009-04-01 -660
2009-05-01 -386
2009-06-01 -502
2009-07-01 -300
2009-08-01 -231
2009-09-01 -236
2009-10-01 -221
2009-11-01 -55
2009-12-01 -130

2010 was less than stellar, too.

Not a positive number to be seen. Sure, I'll give Bush credit for that.

FWIW, GDP bottomed in Q2, '09.

Cheers!
JzB