Now that I did not vote for Romney, I already wish that I did?

[WarmachineX]

bluesinG said:

dsgrue3 said:

bluesinG said:

dsgrue3 said:

Soundwave said:

 

Wow, what an absurd graph. Obama's bar is so small because the US was *losing* more than 500,000 jobs *per month* when he took office, and it took time to dig out of that hole--the hole that Bush dug. Since March 2010, the US has added an average of 141,000 jobs per month--which would rank sixth in that chart, ahead of every Rebuplican president except Reagan.

See for yourself:

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

The chart is what it is, Bush's bar also includes the jobs hemorrhaging as do all the other's listed...not sure how that's "absurd". Opposed to facts?
I really do not want to go into the whole Bush thing. See factcheck.org on the matter of whom is reponsible for the economic downturn.

Using the chart from the source you provided (from March 2010 onward):

17 months where the job creation has failed to exceed 150,000 (minimum estimate to offset increased workers)

15 months where job creation has exceeded 150,000.

4,511,000 NET

(150,000 per month off new workers) * 32 months = 4,800,000

4,511,000 - 4,800,000 = -289,000 jobs

In order to break even and keep up with new workers, we would have required 289,000 more jobs (remember this is a minimum estimate).

Include the 11 million missing from the workforce and there is a stark contrast to the "things are looking up" mentality.

I think that things are looking up because last month the US economy added 171,000 jobs. The month before Obama took office (December 2008), the economy lost 661,000 jobs. That's an improvement of 832,000 jobs per month in 4 years.

I'm not saying that the US economy is as strong as I'd like it to be. Obama hasn't said that, either. But the economy has improved a whole lot over the past 4 years, and I'm confident that it will continue to improve over the next four years (unless, of course, congress royally messes it up).

I mean, do you remember how bad the economy was in 2008/2009? It was terrible. I mean truly God-awful. They didn't call it the Great Recession for nothing.

^this

until Repugs stop being so self centered and caring only about their paychecks, I'm not voting for any of them. Ronmey was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth and knows nothing about what the poor and middle class have to go through to make ends meet.