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A very simple bar chart, easily read.

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725 days ago

A very simple bar chart, easily read.

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AFRAID_OF_SEX 724 days ago

looks like the bush tax cuts are finally working! #sarc

joelcobbs 725 days ago

While I know I could comment on this, everything I would say has already been said. Simple and easy to read.

SpaghettiJesus 725 days ago

My case in point, all of the posts above and below me. Half see a good thing, half see nothing and the last half see a bad thing. is a perfect example. He is too stupid to believe an arithmetical representation of job loss over a two year peri

fitzthecat 725 days ago

It's a simple parabola which may or may not have anything to do with Obama. Something similar happens every day due to the rotation of the Earth around the sun. Only the most rabid would give Obama credit for that.

dybowski 725 days ago

very interesting... hmmmm... anyway... maybe... whatever... etc :)

lordhellion 725 days ago

My favorite is that negative job loss changing to positive job loss MUST be a good thing, right?

jakesundstrom 725 days ago

Does this count the fake jobs he created in fake districts?

razznjazz 725 days ago

That's pretty.

Kevin_byDesign 725 days ago

People will see what they want to: I see Banks Making $ Not loaning. Insurance Companies making profits Not covering sick people. The GOP Not helping with the Recovery- But taking Credit for Stimulus Projects in their States. Obama is on track with the

mattepainter 725 days ago

simple chart, for simple minds.

BlahsayToo 725 days ago

... any point in decades. Obama didn't cause the mess we're in, but while he was distracted with failing at health care reform, millions of Americans aren't making enough to feed their families. Wrong priorities.

BlahsayToo 725 days ago

It doesn't really prove anything. The country wasn't going to keep shedding jobs at 800,000 a month, so the graph would have looked pretty similar without the stimulus package. It also doesn't change the fact that more people are unemployed today than at

factperday 725 days ago

But in seriousness, I think the most revealing thing about this chart is how severe the recession truly was. That's a lot of jobs.

factperday 725 days ago

I dunno, this looks pretty socialist to me. It's a violation of my rights for the government to help the economy.

robsolo 725 days ago

Everything was all well until the Democrats took over congress.

thetylerhayes 725 days ago

All I can say is: thank you. Thank you for posting this. Insanity is saying the same false fact over and over, believing it will eventually come true.

SpaghettiJesus 725 days ago

Good luck trying to explain what that represents to a Teabagger. It's a Rorschach test. We see a butterfly of renewal and rebirth, they see a psychotic clown with a Hitler mustache covered in blood.

NickBMorgan 725 days ago

But I thought caused the recession when he was born in Kenya! #IDoNotActuallyThinkObamaWasBornInKenya