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

[mrstickball]

Kasz216 said:

mrstickball said:

bluesinG said:

Wow, what an absurd graph. Obama's bar is so small because the US was *losing* more than 700,000 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

That chart is pretty funny.

You know why? The part marked "Republican policies" weren't Republican policies....Both houses were controlled by Democrats.

 

Well if you want to get into graphwarz there is always this...

Which more or less shows democrats building off republican steam a bit then jobs dying off.

 

Really though, i'd say it's kinda silly in general, if ony because despite the bluster there really wasn't THAT much difference in republican and democratic economic policy until the Obama administration... espiecally during financial crisises.   The Rank and File republicans wanted to reject the bailouts but party leadership pulled them in line.

 

It's still the thing I find most ironic... that Republicans are seen as the big Wallstreet party... yet the banks would of went bankrupt... thanks to the republicans.  If the first bailout vote was the last one.

Oh, I don't disagree. I just think its funny when people try to throw out various graphs as "proof" that their party is right, when there is usually another similar chart with data that says the opposite. Sadly, few people can even read a chart in context to know weather or not the data is valid and useful in the argument.