Well....actually....thousands of reasons that I'm sure your partisan blinders keep you from seeing....but this is a good one.
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For all those who haven't been brainwashed by the rightwing propaganda machine, does this chart (from the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis) look downward trending to YOU?
It
does to republicans.
Is Romoney trying desperately to deceive people when he claims that "
job numbers have declined since Obama took office"? In a sort of technical way, he is right, although as the job numbers continue to rise under Obama, he won't be even 'technically' right for long. But, as he tries to very sneakily imply to the public that job numbers are declining
now when if fact they have been rising pretty steadily for the last three years, he seeks to hide certain very important aspects of the real world situation by trying to get everyone to ignore both what was already happening four years ago when Obama took office and also all of the positive things that Obama has managed to accomplish since then, mostly over the unified obstructionism of all of the Republicans in Congress. The number of new jobs would have gone up even faster if it weren't for that organized partisan obstructionism that sought to deny Obama any achievements no matter what the cost to the country or to the middle class.
Remember, Obama came into office with the economy in the tank, the banking system and the auto industry about to collapse, American corporations getting tax breaks for moving jobs offshore which, combined with the rapidly snowballing Bush recession, was causing a loss of 800,000 jobs per month, so unemployment was already skyrocketing
* after eight years of Bush Admin. mismanagement that had taken the country from a
$230 billion dollar surplus when Clinton left office to a
$1.3 trillion dollar deficit when Bush left office. It takes a while to turn the economy around and recover after a train wreck like Bush left behind but quite obviously progress is being made on recovery. If the corrupt republican greed freaks and plutocratic power trippers get back into control, expect to see this chart in the coming years look even worse than it looks here in 2009. The ride will be a lot rougher than the Bush years. If Romoney and Lyin' Ryan win, expect to see more wars in the Mideast, huge gas price hikes, more tax cuts for the super rich and the corporations, higher taxes for the middle class and even the poor, more profitable (for them) destruction of the economy and exporting of jobs, a ban on legal abortion and suppression of the availability of contraception supplies and information, more prisons (lots more prisons), more police to enforce the draconian anti-abortion laws, more assaults on everyone's freedoms and rights, more packing the judiciary with far right wing ideologues which means more twisting of the laws to favor the top 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Give Obama a chance and the recovery seen here will continue and grow stronger. Let's give him a majority in the House and a 60 plus majority in the Senate while we're at it and the things we need to happen to grow our economy and compete in the global market can get done without all of the organized Republican obstructionism that we've all seen for the last four years. The right wing has shown a willingness to see the country go down the tubes rather than let Obama accomplish anything. In spite of that, he's accomplished quite a lot.
* "unemployment already skyrocketing" - FactCheck.org reports this:
Repeated Job Loss Claim Romney's claim that Obama "stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history" is also wrong, as we've noted before. The truth is more jobs were lost under Bush than Obama, and most of the jobs lost since he took office have now been regained. Since we wrote about this last year, the BLS has revised its statistics slightly for improved accuracy, as it does every year. The latest data show that "total nonfarm employment" (the standard measure of jobs) declined by nearly 8.8 million between its most recent peak in January 2008 and when the job slump bottomed out more than two years later, in February 2010. Of those lost jobs, nearly 4.5 million disappeared while Bush was president, and just over 4.3 million vanished during Obama's first 13 months in office. And since the job totals hit bottom there have been slow and steady gains, totaling nearly 3.6 million jobs. The total for March (released April 6) stood just 740,000 short of where it was in January 2009 when Obama was inaugurated.
