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Just a quick note: The article has been removed from all archives of the Associated Press and all of Google’s records by The Ministry of Truth. Perhaps this retroactive censoring of news from 1984deserves it’s own post. (8/17/10 Second Jon)
President Barack Obama said in an NBC interview that the 2010 elections are “a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and my policies that got us out of this mess.”
Good news everyone, Obama’s policies “got us out of this mess”!
I’ve previously written about how the unemployment rate stayed low until Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then-Senator Barack Obama, and others in the Democrat party were running the legislature. Then unemployment skyrocketed.
But that started when Obama was just in the party writing the laws. Let’s look at some information about the impact of his major economic policy accomplishment: The stimulus.
Obama's stimulus and Americans who have left the workforce
From Ed Morrissey’s July 10 article, this chart represents “the gross numbers of able-bodied workers outside the workforce and no longer looking for jobs. The red star indicated when Barack Obama’s stimulus was passed, and we can see the effects or lack thereof on the workforce afterward. Not only has the unemployment rate gone up and the number of jobs continued to drop since February 2009, Americans are increasingly leaving the workforce instead of joining it.”
There you have it – we’re out of the mess. We can thank Obama’s policies for nearly doubling the amount of Americans who have left the workforce.
