That's simply not true. Private sector job growth and manufacturing were both strong. They just weren't strong enough to be self-sustaining. Now the gains are being eroded mostly by weakness in PUBLIC sector employment.
Here are the numbers so the entire Obama economic plan
Unemployed 14.7 million unemployed when the recession ended in June 2009 and 13.9 million unemployed today so for a trillion dollars we had a reduction in unemployment of 800 thousand in reported numbers
2009 11919 12714 13310 13816 14518 14721 14534 14993 15159 15612 15340 15267
2010 14837 14871 15005 15260 14973 14623 14599 14860 14767 14843 15119 14485
2011 13863 13673 13542 13747 13914 14087 13931 13967
Discouraged workers in June 2009 was 793,000 and today that is 977 thousand or more discouraged workers than when the recession ended thus reducing that 800K gain by 184K to 616K.
Discouraged workers
2008 467 396 401 412 400 420 461 381 467 484 608 642
2009 734 731 685 740 792 793 796 758 706 808 861 929
2010 1065 1204 994 1197 1083 1207 1185 1110 1209 1219 1282 1318
2011 993 1020 921 989 822 982 977
At the end of the recession in June 2009 there were 15.5 million unemployed and under employed Americans and today that is 14.9 showing that 600,000 gain since the endof the recession at a cost of a trillion dollars. These are terrible results and show why the public is not buying the Obama rhetoric
Unemployed + Discouraged
2008 8095 7831 8194 8043 8797 8980 9356 9890 10036 10656 11225 12042
2009 12653 13445 13995 14556 15310 15514 15330 15751 15865 16420 16201 16196
2010 15902 16075 15999 16457 16056 15830 15784 15970 15976 16062 16401 15803
2011 14856 14693 14463 14736 14736 15069 15050 14944 0 0 0 0