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Now con, there's an amazing concept I'm going to explain to you. When you make a claim about facts, you back up the claim with a link to facts. Otherwise, I have no idea whether you're making things up or not. I at least have linked to sources for my claims. If you look at the graph I posted, the peak job loss for 81-82 was about 3%, vs over 6% in this one. We're in a much deeper hole, here. Or is there another metric you deem more indicative of how bad a recession was?
Personal anecdotes have no place in a dispute about facts.
Aw, gee, you would do that for me? Thanks so much but I prefer the non partisan BLS.gov, BEA.gov, U.S. Treasury sites. Suggest you better start learning about those sites if you are going to try and be credible which it doesn't appear that you are.
Were you working during the 81-82 recession?
BLS data so your chart is absolutely wrong
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1981 7.5 7.4 7.4 7.2 7.5 7.5 7.2 7.4 7.6 7.9 8.3 8.5
1982 8.6 8.9 9.0 9.3 9.4 9.6 9.8 9.8 10.1 10.4 10.8 10.8
1983 10.4 10.4 10.3 10.2 10.1 10.1 9.4 9.5 9.2 8.8 8.5 8.3
1984 8.0 7.8 7.8 7.7 7.4 7.2 7.5 7.5 7.3 7.4 7.2 7.3