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Originally Posted by Sirken
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because yes, 2009 was clearly Obama's fault. im sure 8 years of crazy had nothing to do with that.
under bush we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs per month.
and we've had what now, just about 3 years worth of consecutive job growth minus a month here or there ?
any way you slice it, gaining jobs slowly is better than losing 750,000 per month
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The issue isn't whether or not 2009 was Obama's fault -- and there's a very real argument to be made that he could've done more to minimize the damage. The issue is that you're counting it as an accomplishment that he regained a portion of jobs that had just been lost via a massive recession. Unless you were expecting another Great Depression, that was going to happen no matter who was president.
And we weren't 'hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs per month'. That's a gross misrepresentation. Bush hadn't lost 700,000 jobs in a month at any point of the term until November, after Obama was elected and he was a lame duck president. For Bush's last 3 months, and Obama's first 3 months, we saw the trough of the job market. It wasn't sustainable, and Obama isn't some kind of economic savior for stopping it.
Again, we lost almost 9 million private sector jobs in 2 years. I don't know how much worse you could have possibly expected it to get, unless you expected the entire US economy to fail. This seems to be the way people make a case for Obama. "Pay no attention to what he's actually done... just imagine how much worse it could've been (according to me)". By that logic, praise George W Bush for keeping us all safe. In the very first year of his term, the US suffered its worst ever attack at the hands of foreign enemies. We were hemorrhaging lives (and jobs). If not for Bush, they'd have kept killing us and attacking major American cities. Note: that is ridiculous.
And yes, steady growth beats losses, but what you're not understanding or acknowledging is that our steady growth still has us firmly within the crater of our recession. We're still clawing to get back to where we were in mid-2008 -- something that is inevitable in the aftermath of a recession. That's the way it works. You don't just continue losing jobs forever until there are no jobs left. We already bottomed out. Regaining 1.2 million jobs after losing 8.75 isn't praiseworthy. Citing the 1.2 million and excluding any mention of the 8.75 is disingenuous at best.