Guess how much better employment would have been if Obama wasn't against capitalism, businesses, etc. by making direct statements like these AND
Since President Obama assumed office in 2009, the EPA has published over
3,900 rules, averaging almost 500 annually, and amounting to over 33,000 new pages in the Federal Register. The hearing highlighted growing concerns from states and affected entities about the mounting complexity, costs, and legality of EPA rules.
The compliance costs associated with EPA regulations under Obama number in the hundreds of billions and have grown by more than $50 billion in annual costs since Obama took office. Such high costs, especially those related to the energy sector, ripple throughout the economy, impacting GDP, killing thousands of jobs, and increasing the cost of consumer goods.
Nearly 4,000 EPA Regulations Issued Under President Obama
And then of course how many small businesses that employed less then 50 employees wanted to hire that 50th employee if they were then going to have to spend
thousands more in health insurance due to ACA... WHICH was again an effort by Obama to have a single payer system thus putting 1,400 companies out of business
that employed 450,000 people while paying $100 billion a year in taxes. All of these efforts are certainly not encouraging businesses!