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Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:43 PM Sep 2012

OBAMA BY THE NUMBERS

It is impossible to overstate the depth of the disaster that Barack Obama inherited the day in January 2009 when he put his hand on the Bible, mangled his oath of office, and became the unluckiest man ever to assume the title of President of the United States. The U. S. economy was hemorrhaging jobs — it lost 818,000 jobs that month alone, and it would lose 4.2 million more over the course of that year. Add to that the 3.6 million jobs lost in 2008, with unemployment expected to continue to rise as far into the future as anyone could see, and the American economy was in free fall. Economists were looking at a $2 trillion "output gap"


But according to neo-cons, they will not be bothered by "fact checkers". But this is a good article with more graphs-stats than you need.


http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/13498-obama-by-the-numbers

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