2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Difference Between Obama's First Term And Bush's First Term In One Devastating Chart
Explained here
http://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-first-term-and-bushs-first-term-2012-6
"The blue line is state government employment. The green line is local government employment. And the red line is private employment
As you can see, under Obama, private employment snapped back much better than it did during Bush's first year.
State and local government employment, however, fell much harder under Obama than it did under Bush.
This is of course exactly the opposite of the big government socialist stereotype that the Obama economy is portrayed as, but oh well.
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Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)the Democrats drank the "austerity" Kool-Aid and cut government jobs, which choked the life out of the economy.
The stimulus should have been all employment programs and no tax cuts, and the President's jobs program needs to be passed.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,041 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That is, in my opinion, private companies, many of them controlled by the corporations, completing their takeover of our democratic government. This chart is menacing in my opinion.
The Bill of Rights prohibits the government from violating our rights. It is uncertain to what extent it applies to private companies that do what should in my opinion by government work.
This is a terrible trend that should concern every American.
Rhiannon12866
(207,016 posts)Or much of anything else. *sigh* Too bad they don't feature voter education courses on the small screen instead of attack ads.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,919 posts)Which one looks like a D in office, and which one looks like a R?