Unemployment when Bush left office 7.2
Unemployment now. 8.3
Gasoline prices when Bush left office. 1.78
Gasoline prices now. 3.76
Debt when Bush left office. 10 trillion
Debt now. 15 trillion.
Spin away.
I believe unemployment was at 7.8 but why quibble. The economy was shedding 750,000 jobs a month when Bush finally left office. It is now gaining 250,000 jobs a month. The Obama economy is making a million jobs a month more than Bush left him with
Gas dropped momentarily to $1.78 and then quickly shot up again. Lest we forget, Bush gave us our first $4.00 a gallon gas
Bush debt was $11.3 trillion and he was given a budget surplus when he started. Bush doubled his debt. Obamas budget has to compensate for two Bush wars, an unfunded Medicare Part D and a $2 trillion Bush tax cut
The economy was shedding 750,000 jobs a month when Bush left. If you assume that Bush was the only reason that was happening then we have to assume that everything that has happened since he left was Obama's fault. After all, the Democrats had control of Congress for two years and had plenty of time to screw up the economy before Bush left. Bush asked for good legislation and instead they sent him one protest bill after another.
The Democrats have been in power since Jan 07' so they had something to do with the bad economy. All during the 8 years of Bush they said the economy sucked when in fact it was better than it is now. Obama was one of them. He bares some of the blame.
In summary, liberals, you can't have it both ways. During the Bush years everything was blamed on Bush. To be fair, which I know you don't want to be, Obama is to blame for everything that happens under his watch, the good and the bad. If you won't accept that then I'll continue to cast blame for the poor economy Obama says he inherited on the Democrats.