Obama has created about as many private-sector jobs as were created in the same amount of time in George W. Bush's first term in office -- not a great record, in other words, but definitely positive private-sector job creation. The thing is, the size of government ballooned during the early Bush years, while it's shrunk under Obama, so while Bush also had a lot of public-sector jobs to add to his numbers, public-sector job losses under Obama cancel out private-sector gains.
In other words, conservatives should like Obama, since he's created what are, from their point of view, "real" jobs, and destroyed lots of "fake" jobs.
Bush inherited a recession and a terrorist attack. Credit markets and hiring froze up in 2001. He worked toward fixing the problems. He didn't make them worse like BO. The private sector isn't "doing fine" and government isn't "shrinking." I mean what are you talking about ?? census workers? They should be let go BECAUSE THE CENSUS IS OVER!
Ok, for one that recession was very poor compared to this one. The 2007-2009 recession was caused by a financial collapse, housing bubble burst, and global recession. That's three recessions in one. And that terrorist attack occurred on Bush's watch. He had time and the intel on Bin Laden but chose not to act. And the stimulus didn't create government jobs, it was meant to stop layoffs of government workers and give tax cuts to families and small businesses. I have a few charts of my own.
What Obama meant, was while government has been laying off workers keeping the unemployment rate high, the private sector has been consistently adding jobs since 2010.
And to pull us out of recession, Bush and Clinton added jobs to the public workforce while under Obama, jobs have been cut, with the exception of the Census.
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We've created 4 million jobs and counting since 2009. That's more than Bushin 8 years.
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