FACT: Barack Obama has created more private sector jobs in this year than Bush did in eight!!!

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As pointed out Friday on PBS by...

MARK SHIELDS: And I just wanted to point this out, that Bill Clinton came into office on January 20, 1993. He left on January 20, 2001. He raised taxes to a spectacularly high level, by Republican standards, to 39.6 percent. There were, in Bill Clinton's eight years, 21,872,000 jobs created in the private sector.

George Bush came in, and cut taxes to their lowest, to 33 percent. During George Bush's eight years in the White House, from January 20, 2001, to 2009, the country lost 672,000 jobs.

JIM LEHRER: And you think there is a direct connection?

MARK SHIELDS: Well, I mean, there obviously is, because David told us last week that, if we raised it, it was going to hurt the economy.

DAVID BROOKS: Wait. No.

MARK SHIELDS: Barack Obama has created more private sector jobs in this year, in his administration, than Bush did in eight. So, I don't know what we are talking about, ways...

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[JuniperLea]

1. K&R!!

Hit 'em where it hurts... using their own words!

Brilliant!

[bushisanidiot]

2. Well there's a good kick in the nads to the republicons. Just in time for Nov. 2nd.

haha!!

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11. I would like to see the President & Co. repeat this over and over and over and over and over...

All day everyday, all talk shows...etc.

[JDPriestly]

3. Do you have a link?

I would like to know what Brooks' response was to Shields.

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13. See # 10 below.............nt

[spanone]

4. i wonder if faux will be reporting this?

????

[HughBeaumont]

6. Yeah, sometime around 10 past MY ASS.

Faux leads the nation in Palin/Gingrich 2012 agitprop.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. I'd guess that Bush created more private sector jobs in 2006 than in eight years

And I'd guess that Obama dis-created a lot of jobs in 2009 and created some in 2010... and so on.

And the stock market had its best year in history under Obama... after bottoming at 6600

The problem with this sort of statistical game is that nobody cares... no voter will substitute some trick stat for her overall impression that America is in an employment crisis, which we certainly are.

So it's an ineffective talking point, though literally true.

[MadHound]

7. Funny how our true unemployment rate is still over sixteen percent,

Given all this hoo-ha about private sector job creation, one would think that we didn't have an unemployment problem at all.

[Winterblues]

8. More jobs created under Clinton, than Reagan and both Bushes put together..

Republicans are job killers..

[opihimoimoi]

9. Big KnR...:o)...... The GOP will stifle this as best as they can...usually they will use deception

As normal....

Thanks for the thread

a music gift

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp72a6rx9-M&feature=fvsr

enjoy

[pnorman]

10. Here's the full interview:

http://topics.npr.org/article/08AXbSObUpdMC?q=Bill+Clinton

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12. Thank you!

[toddwv]

14. I use this graph all the time.

Few righties actually address it.



Then show them the "continuation" graph:



And a chart of the US dollar being devalued to make a more favorable environment for US exports, ensure ridiculously low interest rates, and pay for two wars.

[Hannah Bell]

15. it's true, but since bush actually destroyed jobs on net, it doesn't take much to win that contest.

why is it a bragging point?

the wingnuts should be made aware that bush destroyed jobs. they seem to be the only ones who don't know.