If you haven’t seen it already, I wanted to share this rather telling graph (put out by Organizing for America) about the state of job loss in this country…
Show this to all those Obama naysayers that continue to claim that Obama’s plan has fared no better than Bush’s. I don’t think this trend could be any clearer.
I suppose one could argue that the unemployment rate would’ve bottomed out at some point, but is it all a coincidence that the rebound began after President Obama quickly pushed his economic plan through Congress? And yes, I do understand that slowing down the job loss is not the be all and end all. However, instead of continuing to wallow in the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, the country is at least moving in the right direction faster than anyone could have expected, even if the pain of this severe economic downturn will continue to linger for months or years.
This graph was also released on the heels of a New York Times/CBS News poll that found that only 7% of Americans attribute the state of the economy to the Obama Administration, while 31% blamed the Bush people (significantly more than the 23% who blamed Wall Street and the financial institutions!). The poll also reveals the trust that the American people still have in Obama, with 60% of respondents expressing that Obama understands the problems and needs of people like themselves (compared with 42% for Congressional Dems and the lowest total, 35%, reserved for Congressional Republicans).
Since Day 1 of this administration, the Republican Party strategy has been: “Screw Obama at any cost!” Yet as Americans continue to support the President over Republicans by those kind of margins, I wonder if they will ever realize the need to actually put some effort into governing…
