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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
more like the unemployment rate wasn't above 8% for most of his presidency. BTW, this has been an issue for years as to how presidents have made changes to effect the %
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But I don't get this. The unemployment rate has little to do with Obama and everything to do with the Recession. Obama didn't cause the recession. President Bush was in office when it hit (and you can even argue Bush wasn't at fault as well).
Take politics out of it. Brett, you've been to my house and seen my hometown here. We were building and building like madmen before the recession hit. When the recession hit everything went to hell and a handbasket. Businesses went under, and our tax revenue disappeared. Tons of people lost their houses. Exactly half of the houses on my street were vacant. And now come election time they are pointing fingers at the current mayor and the current town council saying our town's problems are because of them. It isn't. They weren't in office leading up to this, and they weren't in office when the recession hit. Instead, they are doing their best to pick up the pieces and move forward - which is difficult at best if not impossible.
This isn't a four year problem. It's most likely not an eight year problem. It's a ten or twenty year problem. This is a massive world wide problem that has foreign governments on the brink of collapsing. This is massive and it happened under a Republican president.
We should be thankful un-employment is only at 8%.