What's Big And Red And Didn't Create Any Jobs?

[Playinghardball]

Source: MoveOn.org

[yella_dawg]

1. Interesting. This points out the *real* job crisis in America.

Yeah, when Shrub retired, the economy was hemorrhaging jobs, and it took months to stop the bleeding. The job market isn't healing well under Obama. But the 350 ton gorilla in the room is the fact that under Shrub, the economy never created enough jobs to offset growth in the working population. We ran a deficit in job creation for the entire eight years, not to mention a mini-recession after the dot-com absurdity.

So yeah, 2008 was rough, but we were already in a full blown crisis before the first bank tumbled.

[hfojvt]

2. dang I was gonna guess

Nebraska

moving to the big 10. :thumbsdown:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. I was gonna guess Boner's nose.

[Bozita]

3. But, but that's evidence with real scientific-type numbers. Beliefs trump that kinda shit everytime.

What else you got?

[hfojvt]

4. actually the numbers do not ring true to me

Are they from the household survey?

I think that is normally considered less reliable than the establishment survey. From the establishment survey, I get that about 1.5 million jobs were created in 2003 and 2.3 million were created in 2004.

Not anything like Clinton numbers (which were often over 3 million a year) but not the hugely negative numbers from the chart in the OP either seeming to show 2 million lost jobs in 2003. Maybe that is true in the manufacturing sector.???

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.ceseeb1.txt

year - jobs - private sector jobs
2001...... 131,826 ** 110,708 **
2002...... 130,341 ** 108,828
2003...... 129,999 ** 108,416
2004...... 131,435 ** 109,814

[Romulox]

5. The OBAMA tax cuts haven't helped very much, either. nt

[Lucky 13]

6. I was going to say pretty much everything we've tried thus far.

Still waiting...

[applegrove]

8. Boehner?