Intoxination

Joe Scarborough, Still The Shill

This morning Joe Scarborough was all giddy touting that George Bush “created 3 million jobs”. This is something I have seen Republicans push for quiet sometime without backing it up with any data. Well that data is really easy to find on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. First off, here is a nice graph to illustrate job creation/loss:

Now for the raw data

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2000 249 121 472 286 225 -46 163 3 122 -11 231 138 1953
2001 -16 61 -30 -281 -44 -128 -125 -160 -244 -325 -292 -178 -1762
2002 -132 -147 -24 -85 -7 45 -97 -16 -55 126 8 -156 -540
2003 83 -158 -212 -49 -6 -2 25 -42 103 203 18 124 87
2004 150 43 338 250 310 81 47 121 160 351 64 132 2047
2005 136 240 142 360 169 246 369 195 63 84 334 158 2496
2006 262 326 304 174 31 69 232 141 100 43 201 177 2060
2007 194 104 239 92 149 55 -20 -71 52 86 128 70 1078
2008 -10 -50 -33 -149 -231 -193 -210 -334 -458 -554 -728 -673 -3623
2009 -779 -726 -753 -528 -387 -515 -346 -212 -225 -224 64 -109 -4740
2010 14 39 208 313 432 -175 -54 -54         723

Now if you take the years Bush was in office, 2001-2008, we do have a net job creation of 1.8 million. The last year Bush was in office we saw a loss of 3.6 million jobs. As matter of fact the peak job loss month was the last month Bush was in office, January 2009.

I know raw facts, like this does, risk making a Republican head or two explode, but I can’t help but point them out.

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