Bush averaged zero jobs his first term and -20,000 jobs for his first 43 month

[ProSense]

Here are the monthly jobs numbers:



http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth

Bush:

2001, -1.75 million (Feb thru Dec)
2002, -545,000
2003, +84,000
2004, +1.35 million (thru Aug)


Obama:

2009, -4.24 million (Feb thru Dec)
2010, +1.02 mllion
2011, +1.84 million
2012, +1.11 million (thru Aug)

Monthly average first 43 months

Bush: -20,000
Obama: -6,000

From August 2001 to August 2004: -8,000 per month (Bush)
From August 2009 to August 2012: +85,000 per month (Obama)


Monthly average 2003 through August 2004: +72,000 (Bush)

Monthly average 2011 through August 2012: +148,000 (Obama)



Mitt Romney responds to jobs report with glee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021294327

In September 2011, Republicans blocked the American Jobs Act and up to 2 million jobs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021294027

[phasma ex machina]

1. Not to mention the banking collapse on his watch. nt

[ProSense]

3. Yes, this is

comparing Bush post Clinton's job creation to Obama post Bush's historic economic disaster. So there is that!

[Dawson Leery]

2. k/r

[ProSense]

4. The way the media and

Republicans are carrying one gets the impression Bush's zero job creation during his first term is more of what this country needs.

[Dawson Leery]

8. They pretend that Dubya never existed.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. I'm convinced

No way I'm voting for Bush.

[ProSense]

6. Good for you!

"No way I'm voting for Bush."

What about Romney? He's pushing Bush's policies on steroids.

Mitt Romney Promises to Create Eleventeen Million Jobs

OK, not exactly. But he did say that we should be creating 500,000 jobs a month — which almost never happens — and that we should have 4 percent unemployment, which is way below almost anyone’s estimate of the lowest rate we can have without accelerating inflation.

But he understands the economy, right?

Incidentally, since Romney is proposing a complete return to Bush economic policies, it might be interesting to note the average rate of job creation during Bush’s first 7 years in the White House — that is, his record even if you ignore the catastrophe at the end. And that average monthly rate, from the BLS, was … drum roll … 66,000.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/mitt-romney-promises-to-create-eleventeen-million-jobs/

[ProSense]

7. Kick! n/t