What WOULD the unemployment rate be right now if not for Republican obstruction?

[TheWraith]

Five percent? Six? Something like that though, probably.

[badtoworse]

1. There is no way to know. Any number would be speculation.

[HopeHoops]

2. You have to take into account the non-obstruction destruction caused by the shrub.

Without that, I'm thinking somewhere in the 5% range.

[MH1]

3. Probably not much better than 7%, but that's much better than over 8%

There are a lot of non-political (ok not directly political) reasons this is a tough recession. Even without republican obstructionism, I don't think we'd be back to 5% yet.

[Puzzledtraveller]

4. All the stimulus plans passed

Outside of stimulus what legislation do you think would have improved unemployment numbers in a manner as to see them go down much more rapidly than they are?