Strongest jobs recovery in decades.

Conservative said:

Joe, you were doing so well when you stated that people spending their money stimulates the economy then you go and do this?

The job numbers this year are worse each month and in total vs. last year. Almost 16 million Americans are unemployed and that doesn't include the business owners that went out of business or the contract workers who lost their jobs. By all measures this Administration has been a disaster and attempts to spin it positively destroys your credibility.

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When, may I ask, did I ever mention "this administration?" When did I defend the Presidents policies directly? I'm really curious what post you are reading.

When it comes to the economy, I think of myself as fairly objective. It's a proven fact that lowering taxes can stimulate the economy, over time. That's your line of reasoning, as a Conservative, and I wont argue against it. But it's also a proven fact that Federal spending on the private secure leads to recovery. US history 101 doesn't lie, all I suggested was to read about the Great Depression. But as far as President Obama? He has not done a perfect job, by my score card, and I'm not an ideologue. Thanks for confusing the issue with your non-sense accusations anyway.

FilmFestGuy said:

Okay. Let's examine this historically:

Reagan's recession: 7/81 to 11/82 - 16 months.

Let's look at the unemployment rate under his first term:

In February, 1981 the unemployment rate was 7.4%

By this point in his term, the unemployment rate was 10.1%.

At the end of the recession in November of 1982, unemployment was 10.8%.

It would not be until September, 1984 that the unemployment rate returned to its original level, slightly lower at 7.3%. It wouldn't be until well into 1987 that the unemployment rate would return consistantly under 7%.

So, Reagan's recovery took much longer than the present one and unemployment continued upward for quite some time, as opposed to the present recovery, where unemployment has at least stagnated.

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A nice attempt at spin, but simply not true. GDP growth and employment were both much stronger in the early 80's.

Most will agree the recent recession ended in the middle of last year. If we compare private sector job growth since August 2009 to the same time period of growth after November 82, we get the following:

Average Private Sector Jobs per Month
Reagan: 262,000
Obama: 7,000

The article linked in the OP wants to define "strongest" recovery in terms of succesive months of growth, ignoring actual numbers. The only reason to do that is if you want to spin the numbers to make Obama look good.