PolitiFact Ohio | Sherrod Brown touts job growth during Clinton presidency vs. Bush?s jobs record
Number of jobs as of January, 1993, a week before Clinton took office: 109.725 million.
Number of jobs as of Jan. 2001, a week before Clinton left office: 132.469 million
Net Gain under Clinton: 22.7 million jobs.
Now for Bush, who succeeded Clinton in the White House. As already noted, the nation had 132.469 million jobs as he was taking office.
Number of jobs on Jan. 12, 2009, a week before Bush left office: 133.549 million.
Net gain under Bush: 1.08 million jobs.
1.08 million jobs in EIGHT YEARS !
And the Republicans claim they can do a better job than the Democrats???
You seem to be ignoring my question.
Was there a need for job creation during that span?
Furthermore and to ensure you do not fall for the spin of the numbers..
When Bush took over, many dot com jobs were lost...not becuase of Bush policies but because of the reality of the dot com bubble.
And not only were those jobs replaced during the ensuing 8 years, but another million were added.
And finally, and what you seemed to have left out, the recession hbegan in ewarly 2007....and that is from normal market cycles and not to be confused with the credit collapse....
So there was a net gain of 1 million jobs despoite all of the dot com jobs lost, the jobs lost in the 2007 recession...and, of course, not to mention that there was no agenda to create jobs.
When we analyze the numbers THAT way....the proper way.....sounds like Bush did a dam good job.