Tuesday, December 15, 2015

GW Bush: Reminder - How bad was it during the GW Bush years.

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/reminder-republicans-just-bad-things-george-w-bush/

Then came September when the bottom officially started falling out.  But it wasn’t just that month.  We lost jobs every single month in 2008 (2.6 million in total).  The worst annual loss of jobs since 1945. In his last three months in office, we lost a combined 1.7 million jobs.  In January 2009, his last month in office, we lost 598k jobs.   And let’s not forget he had just bailed out Wall Street, the American auto industry was on the verge of collapse, our deficits were out of control, our national debt was almost double what it was when he took office, the stock market was plummeting, millions of Americans were losing their homes and unemployment was skyrocketing out of control. Then let’s also not forget that we were still engulfed in two wars. Bush’s final approval rating was 22 percent.  That’s the world in which we lived when George W. Bush left office in January 2009.

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/reminder-republicans-just-bad-things-george-w-bush/

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