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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 02:41 PM
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where were the republicans when.... 'Job growth under bu$h* was worst since WWII'?
President George W. Bush will leave office Tuesday with the worst employment-growth record of any president since World War II, according to a new analysis by Bizjournals.

The nation’s job base grew at an annual rate of 0.28 percent during Bush’s eight years as president – by far the slowest pace for any of the 11 presidents in the postwar era, according to Bizjournals. Bizjournals is the online media arm of American City Business Journals, The Business Review's parent company.

The previous low had been set by Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, with an annual job-growth rate of 0.59 percent. The elder Bush served between 1989 and 1993.

Bizjournals used seasonally adjusted data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate employment-growth rates for the administrations of all presidents since Harry Truman. Each president’s record was based on a comparison of job totals in the final full month served by his predecessor and his own final month. George W. Bush’s span ran from December 2000, when nonfarm employment totaled 132.5 million, to December 2008, when it reached 135.5 million.


Read more: Job growth under Bush was worst since WWII | Jacksonville Business Journal
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 02:46 PM
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1. but he kept us safe.....
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

that is the come back that i always hear them say.......
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 02:50 PM
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2. safe from overtime....
Edited on Fri Jan-07-11 02:51 PM by spanone
and where were the democrats? why weren't they hammering the thugs?
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 02:59 PM
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3. Except for that one time in NYC and, oh yeah, when the market crashed.
Other than that…
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Mark Maker Donating Member (168 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 03:16 PM
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4. I'm sure there is a simple answer for this, but if full employment
Is supposedly a 4-5% unemployment rate, who would have filled those jobs if they had been created? I do know that 1000's of migrants have left Arizona in the past few years because the jobs dried up, maybe that's the answer.



http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=LN_cpsbref3
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 04:00 PM
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5. worse president ever.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 04:04 PM
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6. Too busy being frightened by "The Prince" and "Mein Kampf" readers.
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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-11 04:09 PM
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7. Where were the dems and why did they not shout this out every day!
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