In December 2008, the month before Obama took office, we lost 839,000 jobs. In July 2012, we gained 163,000 jobs. This is a 1,002,000 swing in the monthly job numbers from the starting point where Republicans left and Democrats took power. The Bush Administration left America with -8.9 GDP, and within just one year, Pres. Obama improved it to + 3.5%, which is a 12.4% swing, the biggest in US economic history. Roosevelt took office in 1933 and started a massive spending program to boost the economy and dig America out of the Great Depression. My point is, during this collapse, Republicans wanted to do nothing — like they did from 1930 to 1933. During that time, unemployment went from 4.6% to 24.9%. Had Obama not come in and passed the stimulus, and instead followed Republican ideas, that is where we would have ended up. Obama broke the free fall. Now, those of us who support him must fight on his behalf. He turned America around in an extremely dramatic way. Examine the process Republicans used to block the American jobs act to sabotage the President’s ability to improve the economy prior to the election. Every jobs bill was filibustered. Not the vote on the final bill, but they filibustered the capacity to even debate jobs measures. Republicans did not want to be on record when they blocked legislation that provided tax cuts for small businesses, so they wouldn’t even debate the issues. We must hold Republicans accountable today for the jobs reports we see. More jobs could have been added if Republicans were a little bit more patriotic and vigilant about seeing America successful as fast as possible.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:40:37 +0000
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