If it wasn’t for the fact that so many people are suffering and being seduced into empty lives of government dependency (symbolized by Julia, the world’s most disappointing daughter), I might feel sorry for President Obama.
He promised unemployment would never climb above 8 percent if Congress squandered $800 billion on a Keynesian stimulus scheme.
Well, Congress said yes and the results have not been pretty. And every month we get new numbers to show us that the Administration’s policies have failed. It’s like Chinese water torture for the White House.
The numbers released this morning from the Department of Labor don’t change the narrative. The Republican and Democratic spin-doctors obviously will spit out their talking points, but here’s a visual put together by Political Math that trumps all the political maneuvering. If you’re wondering where Obama is, look at the lower left portion of the image.
This image is a couple of months old, but job creation has been so anemic that the naked eye wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if it was updated.
Since I normally show a graph with the actual unemployment rate compared to what Obama promised, I’ll add that as well. Not a pretty picture. I wrote that last month’s version would cause anxiety for Obama, and see no reason to change that assessment.
Yes, the official unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent, but that was because more Americans dropped out of the labor force.
Most important, the rate of joblessness is about 2-1/2 to 3 percentage points higher than what Obama promised. Now he wants a second term, yet all he’s promising is more of the same.
Actually, I retract that statement. He wants to maintain his current approach, but then add some class-warfare taxes to the mix.
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Need one like that but showing the debt incurred of each. The 2 side by side would say even more.
Would like to see the numbers based on President and the make-up of Congress.
What PSullivan said. That would be awesome.
A president seeking re-election should focus his campaign on his track record. Reagan did so in 1984 with the commercial “Morning in America”.
With Obama, I’m waiting for a commercial called “Mourning in America”. His first term was a disaster – thus it should be the only one.
I really don’t see why this man still gets some 50% of Americans to support him. The destruction of the education system might have its impact now…
That is quite a graphic. I always wonder how much of the difference in the economy under different presidents has to do with the Fed rather than executive or legislative action. Can you shed any light?
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