Allow me to create this list without giving references.
For now, I am your reference. As time gives me
the opportunity, I will document the following, but, for
now, trust me (or challenge me, I don't care).
\Unemployment rates:
On the day Obama took office, unemployment was 7.3%. They
will tell you that it was 7.8% , but, in fact, the end of
December number was 7.3%. It was 7.8% at the end of January.
Obama signed his stimulus into law on February 17, and
told the nation that unemployment would not rise above 8%. Within days,
by the end of February, unemployment rose to 8.3%.
Gas prices under Bush and Obama:
The day Obama took office, gas at the pump was $1.84,
down from 4 dollars a gallon in July of 2008. Nationally, gas
is at $3.87 on average. It is selling for 4.29 a gallon (we are talking
about regular gas) in California.
We need 8 million more jobs just to back to zero:
The workforce has shrunk by 5 million people since Obama
took office. He will brag about jobs created, but will not mention
the 5 million who have dropped out of the labor force and work against his
brag. Five million people. Add that to the 3 million that dropped
out before Obama, and you have a situation in which we have to
create another eight million jobs just to get back to Zero. Remember
that, tonight.
You will hear, tonight, that Obama has created
more jobs than have been lost, as of two weeks ago. This is not
true. But the chart proving my case, from the BLS, has been removed
as of two weeks ago and replaced with a nothing burger chart showing
"unemployment rates." That chart is meaningless in determining
jobs gained versus jobs lost.
____________________Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 6.0 | |
| 2003 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 5.7 | |
| 2004 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | |
| 2005 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | |
| 2006 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | |
| 2007 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | |
| 2008 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 7.3 | |
| 2009 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 9.9 | |
| 2010 | 9.7 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 9.6 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 9.4 | |
| 2011 | 9.1 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 8.5 | |
| 2012 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.1 |
The chart immediately above, replaced a chart, two weeks ago, showing job counts for each month since 2002. When you added up all losses for the 2009 through 2012 inclusive, we had total monthly losses at 5.1 million jobs. Total job gains added up to 4.2 million. The consecutive count for job gains, began in October of 2010, not March of that year. The difference, of course, is 900,000 jobs lost over what has been gained.
During this past week, someone found another 375,000 not
listed on the chart. Adding those numbers into the equation, Obama is
still short -- fewer jobs gained than lost, for his term in office.
But now that this last chart has been removed, it will
be much more difficult to prove him wrong.
Understand that the above chart was added, no doubt,
because of the discrepancy issue. That chart proved Obama wrong, and it has been removed. I know what that means, even if you do not.
___________________
Housing:
While housing is up, a bit, it remains at a record lows. (link)
___________________
Housing:
While housing is up, a bit, it remains at a record lows. (link)
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