[ClearCase_guy]

Well done. Very powerful.

I just wish I could read the wording on the graphs.

[AndyJackson]

As much as we all want to believe this graph, it is statistical HS. The economy was headed for a fall because of 30 to 50 years of economic mischief and it finally caught up with us. In case you forget, there were already a number of problem that were clearly on the pubbie watch that caused folks to toss them out.

The problem with producing and publishing trasparently iodiotic crap like this is that it destroys the credibility of our sound arguments. Moreover, it is not as though the pubbies were a solution to the problem. The RINOs are as bad as the dims are. Worse, the RINOs genuinely believed that the nonsense going on with the FED and Wall Street was just ok. These were "private" transactions.

[Former Proud Canadian]

And this shocks anybody because...?

These guys are anti-energy, pro regulation, pro taxes, pro big government. The absolute path to no growth/high unemployment.

[usconservative]

I wrote about this more than a year ago. The Bureau of Labor & Statistics has a great chart that shows job losses commencing with the first Democrat Controlled Congress' budget which commenced in 2008.

It's important to note that the Federal Government does the budget a year in advance. The last Republican controlled Congress' budget, passed in 2006 ran through 2007. The first Democrat controlled Congress' budget, passed in October of 2007 for fiscal year 2008.

It's NOT a coincidence that the economy went in the shitter at the same time the Democrats started spending OUR MONEY!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Nicely done.

U6 numbers as of January 8, 2010 have gone from 13.5% to 17.3% in one short year!

U6 accounts for the folks below, as well as the newly unemployed. Basically it lumps together EVERYONE that’s without a job, or those WITH part-time jobs who are ready, willing and able to work full time and can’t find full-time work and those that have basically given up:

“Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past.

Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.”

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

[surfer]

Graph looks cherry picked. Should be expanded and should include most recent data as well.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Excellent! EVERY GOP candidate running for office should use this. It should be publicized far and wide, though the MSM will totally ignore it.

[Reagan69]

On a related topic, here is the "Happiest States" by political pursuasion: Red=Republican, Blue=Democrat, Purple= 08/Obama, 04/Bush I would like to see the states ranked by "Financial Health" broken into parties.

[csmusaret]

We warned them this would happen if they raised the minimum wage. ;)