2014 might be the best year for new jobs since... drumroll...

[cthulu2016]

1999.

Since Clinton was President.

This is not due to our economy being great (it is not) but due to the memory-holed fact of the JOBLESS BUSH PRESIDENCY.

Even at the height of the housing bubble, the Bush economy never once, not in a single year, never saw as many new private sector jobs as we say in 2011, which wasn't exactly boom town.

ALL jobs is a slightly different story, of course, because unlike the Obama years, the Bush years saw big gains in government employees while the private sector languished. (Public sector employees do more than teach our kids and haul our trash... they also invade countries)

But even for ALL jobs, 2014 may well post the highest total since 1999.

Background info:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/05/comments-on-employment-report.html

[Dawson Leery]

1. BENGHAZI!

[winter is coming]

2. I'd advise against triumphantly announcing that to the long-term unemployed, or to

folks who don't make a living wage.

[cthulu2016]

3. Can I advise you against willfully misreading simple posts?

The OP is about the almost total lack of job creation during the G W Bush presidency.

I see no reason that fact should be kept from the long-term unemployed.

A person who had read the OP, rather than seeing it as part of an internet-wide knee-jerking, self-righteous snark contest, would have picked up on that.

[winter is coming]

4. People have long since figured out that job creation was pathetic during the Bush years.

No one knows that better than people who are unemployed or underemployed. And "2014 might be the best year for new jobs" is a strange way to begin selling that message.

[GeorgeGist]

5. The Post title would lead one to believe otherwise.

[1000words]

6. I thought the same as "winter is coming."

OP title is inconsistent with your objection