Where can I get the month by month unemployment numbers to compare Bush to Obama?

They are on the Internet. Your welcome.

Bureau of Labor Statistics would be a start.

If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be engaging conservitards in such debates ...

Right here:

http://www.slightlyangryoldman.com/Downhome/Government-Stupidity/realunemploymentrateaugust12014

Bush sucked, but not as bad as Obama.

All data comes from table the BLS:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm

Umm. Bush's numbers looked a lot better than Obama's. How come Obama says that everything is Bush's fault then?

When did he say that?

You do realize that while Bush inherited (and quickly harmed) a very healthy economy and budget surplus from Clinton, while Obama inherited a country absolutely bleeding jobs. Then whereas Democrats worked with Bush to pass budgets from the beginning, Obama couldn't get a single bit of collaboration from Republicans in the worst economic crisis in 70 years. And Obama will still leave his successor with a far stronger economy, whereas Bush left us with a disaster.

From the beginning of Bush's tenure to the end, the monthly unemployment figure increased by 98%.

During Obama's tenure, the figures have decreased by 25%.

Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record

By WSJ Staff

President George W. Bush entered office in 2001 just as a recession was starting, and is preparing to leave in the middle of a long one. That’s almost 22 months of recession during his 96 months in office.

His job-creation record won’t look much better. The Bush administration created about three million jobs (net) over its eight years, a fraction of the 23 million jobs created under President Bill Clinton’s administration and only slightly better than President George H.W. Bush did in his four years in office.

Here’s a look at job creation under each president since the Labor Department started keeping payroll records in 1939. The counts are based on total payrolls between the start of the month the president took office (using the final payroll count for the end of the prior December) and his final December in office.

Because the size of the economy and labor force varies, we also calculate in percentage terms how much the total payroll count expanded under each president. The current President Bush, once taking account how long he’s been in office, shows the worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records. –Sudeep Reddy

It gets worse welfare red state rubes.

Almost all those new jobs were within the despised Federal Gubmint, specifically the Department of Homeland Security. When it comes to the private sector, cokehead failure boy Bush didn't even "create" enough jobs to compensate for organic population growth!

Seriously! The crosseyed pinhead lying machine promised you gullible chumps "small gubmint" and this is what he delivered:

2009 United States federal budget - $3.1 trillion (submitted 2008 by President Bush)

2008 United States federal budget - $2.9 trillion (submitted 2007 by President Bush)

2007 United States federal budget - $2.8 trillion (submitted 2006 by President Bush)

2006 United States federal budget - $2.7 trillion (submitted 2005 by President Bush)

2005 United States federal budget - $2.4 trillion (submitted 2004 by President Bush)

2004 United States federal budget - $2.3 trillion (submitted 2003 by President Bush)

2003 United States federal budget - $2.2 trillion (submitted 2002 by President Bush)

2002 United States federal budget - $2.0 trillion (submitted 2001 by President Bush)

(With both of his Bad Faith wars for oil still off the books Enron-style in 2009 too!!)

While it might be hard right now to envision anybody else ever stealing an election and then putting a $10 TRILLION ass-raping on the country; I vote Republican all my life and I know better.

Both Aggie Joke Rick Perry and Ted Cruz have the same kind of G.O.P. greatness in them. Especilly when it comes to working with the private sector!

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Curt Hebert also resigned shortly after he said that Lay told him that he would lose Enron's support in the White House if he kept opposing open access to privately owned power lines. Bush promptly replaced Hebert with Texas Public Utility Commis-sioner Pat Wood, who had Enron's blessing.

Governor Rick Perry, who received the next largest chunk of Enron money, appointed former Enron de Mexico President Mario Max Yzaguirre as Public Utility Commission chair in June 2001.

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I find it laughable that some idiots believe that a single person in the form of the POTUS can magically change the course of the US economy.

The US has run deficits for 30 years, with a few respites. It is only going to get worse, unless real action is taken by CONGRESS. The odds of that? Dropping every year.

Truthier wrote:

I find it laughable that some idiots believe that a single person in the form of the POTUS can magically change the course of the US economy.

BINGO!

If you had just put a potted plant in the Oval Office in 2000, (instead of a common streetcorner Texass con man, that is,) then the US National Debt was going to be $3.8 Trillion in 2008.

Wht do you welfare state parasites want to see this stuff happen all over again anyway?

Truthier wrote:

I find it laughable that some idiots believe that a single person in the form of the POTUS can magically change the course of the US economy.

That's down to our oh so liberal media

Here are the unemployment numbers from 2000 to now:

(you may have to change the range at the top)

http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

Unemployment ranged between 4 and 6 percent during most of Bush's terms.

It spiked towards 8% as Obama took over and rose to 10% by the end of 2009.

It has steadily but slowly worked its way down to the current 6.2%.

It looks like the drop in unemployment from 2003 - 2007 echoed the rise in home values and the consumer spending that went along with it.

And the 2008 crash gave way to the sudden and dramatic rise in unemployment as employers panicked.

Home values aren't coming all the way back because they were wrongly overvalued.

Home values seem to be at a reasonable level and unemployment is at the same point where it was before housing took off in the first place.

But now the trend is up instead of down.

And Bush wasn't bad for the economy, he just happened to preside during this period.

The efforts he oversaw in the fall of 2008 helped save the country from what could have been a real depression.

And Obama continued those efforts in 2009 to stabilize things and turn the free fall around.

It all could have been worse.

A breath of relief to find some sanity in an insane world.

So... it's actually Clinton's fault for the recession since this says that Bush entered office as the recession was starting. Does anyone blame Clinton?