Politifact Ohio rates Sherrod Brown's statements about Bush vs Clinton job creation TRUE.

[HughBeaumont]

http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2010/jul/25/sherrod-brown/sherrod-brown-touts-job-grown-during-clinton-presi/

"We saw jobs created, 22 million in the Clinton years," said Brown, a Democrat who’s not up for reelection until 2012. "Because they were responsible about cutting taxes selectively and increasing taxes selectively and they were responsible about what government programs they formed and they dismantled. Twenty-two million jobs created and incomes went up in those eight years for the average American. And in the next eight years, the eight Bush years, only 3 million jobs created and that wasn`t even enough to keep up with population growth."

The quantitative claims seemed worth checking out, and in doing so we found a surprise: Brown is wrong – but not in a way he’ll likely mind. No fan of President George W. Bush, Brown grossly understated the poor job growth that occurred on Bush’s watch.

The comparison should have been this: Job growth through Clinton two terms was 22.7 million. Through Bush’s two terms, it was 1.1 million.

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Brown’s office wasn’t sure where the senator got his figures, but we did some tracing and concluded it probably came from a Wall Street Journal online story of Jan. 9, 2009. That’s where the Democratic committee says it got its numbers, too. The Wall Street Journal examined net job growth for more than half a century and declared that Bush had the "worst track record on record."

That doesn’t mean it’s the worst ever. It’s just the worst since the Labor Department started keeping payroll records in 1939.

It amazes me to no end that there are still those who laughably state things were better when Failure Fuhrer II was giving them money America didn't have, all the while ramping up the tax-draining wars and giving corporations tax breaks to ship jobs overseas.

So to recap: Sherrod Brown is awesome and the Borrow and Waste Morons miserably fail the middle/working/poor classes time and time again.

Remind me WHY ANY American is even giving the Party of Bastards, led by that babbling ornament Sarah Palin, ANY consideration for high office?

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1. I have heard those figures over the years and I suppose

they are true. Something I don't understand though. If as they claim 22.7 million jobs were created during the Clinton years. I don't know the exact figures but unemployment wasn't that high when Clinton took office. So if say the unemployment dropped 3% during the Clinton years that my account for 3 to 5 million or so jobs. So if subtract that from the 22.7 million there must have been a population growth of somewhere in the order of 17-19 million. According to the those figures the population growth should have been nearly zero or a minus in the Bush years. Those figures just don't add up to me.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. It was my understanding that Bush changed the rules on how you kept track of the unemployed

I would need to look that up to confirm it

[Soylent Brice]

3. that's my Senator.

:)

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. K&R5

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Yavin4]

6. "That doesn’t mean it’s the worst ever. It’s just the worst since the Labor Department ...

started keeping payroll records in 1939."

I think that Oooogh, leader of a small band of hunter gatherers on the Northern continent during the Lower Paleolithic era, had a worst job creation record.

[HughBeaumont]

7. Kick for the night crowd.