Monday, June 15, 2009

Looking Past the Rhetoric: The Real Unemployment Numbers


I found this chart found at an excellent article at Innocent Bystanders . I hear over and over again about how this is all Bush's legacy. I don't buy it. Those red dots? The actual numbers climbing up, up, up.. those are Obama's failed policies and the results. Obama promised us such a rosy result if we just spent the billions in the recovery plan. He promised such dire results if we did not pass it. Hmmmmmm.

Clearly his policies are not doing as promised. Now he says they need more stimulus money. More. More. More. That will bring the jobs he promised the first time. If you go back and do the numbers... even being generous to Obama... the per job cost is hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But do we hear about the wastes of government now? About Obama's wasteful spending on a trip to the theater? No... but during Bush's presidency we heard about how children were starving while he played golf... and the unemployment numbers were nothing compared to now. Media bias? uh. yeah.

1 comment:

Omah's Helping Hands said...

It's sad isn't it as to how many are blind to all this. I think many are hoping for "change" and thinking Obama will supply it, and in so doing ignoring the facts. And yes, media bias plays a huge role in it. Great post! We need to be praying and praying.