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frazzled

(18,402 posts)
1. During his 8 years (96 months) in office, a net 3 million jobs were created
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:10 PM
Jul 2012

That's an average of 31,250 jobs per month. Way worse than what we're seeing now.

And the problem is: many of those jobs were jobs lost forever. It's harder to create new jobs out of nothing than to refill old ones: but the old ones are gone (partly because of outsourcing, partly because, imo, things like retail jobs have disappeared due to Internet sales, partly because of the economy.)

blm

(113,131 posts)
2. Bush's tax and economic policies brought us the largest drop in jobs in 34 years.
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:10 PM
Jul 2012

And GOP is STILL using its congressional procedures and filibuster to protect those Bush tax and economic policies so they cannot be replaced by the same progressive policies that brought us record surplus. GOP hates America and its working families.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/06/news/economy/jobs_january/

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