Was talking with my parents this morning.
The number of active jobs in the United States grew by roughly 9.75% each presidential term from 1960 through 2000. (approximate average)
One eight year term would see another 19.75% (approximately) new jobs added to the nation’s work force.
Starting in 2000, that abruptly stopped. Bush in two terms added 0.85% jobs overall. Obama’s first term in office wasn’t much better. I believe it was something like 1.5%.
Through 2012, there had been three presidential terms with an overall increase in our nations private sector and federal government sector jobs, falling behind the 29.25% increase that would normally be expected, to just a little over a 2% increase.
When talking about jobs, they play with the people who are still looking. They don’t address all the jobs that failed to be created in the U. S.
This is all a big scam. We are at least 30 million jobs short of where we should be at this time, and I’m pretty sure it’s more in the neighborhood of 40 million.
5.8% unemployment? That is so bogus it should be actionable.