[originalbuckeye]

This is an article from around the 2006 election. I had an arguement with my brother about the low unemployment rate when the Democrats took over the House and Senate. He didn't believe me. Thought you all might be interested. The article states that unemployment wasn't high in American's minds running up to the election of 2006. Too bad. We should have been MUCH more concerned then!

[Incorrigible]

So what did your BIL have to say for himself when presented with facts? :-)

[Brilliant]

The economy went downhill right after Nancy the Pelosi became Speaker.

[GOP Poet]

glad you pulled this up.

[Jet Jaguar]

[ReformedBeckite]

There is also the factor that some economist consider 4% as zero unemployment as that is close to the amount of people that won’t look for a job because they would rather collect unemployment as long as they can.

[Nat Turner]

Bush’s Fault LOL!!!!

[Moonman62]

W’s economy was a house of cards based on government growth, a commodities bubble, and a housing bubble.

[rlmorel]

Yeah. Funny how it is all Bush's fault. These types of graphs just keep popping up.

[rae4palin]

Good one.

[icwhatudo]

In the 2006 midterm elections, democrats took back control of congress. Lets see how they’ve done:

Dow Jones Average
Jan 07: 12,398
Current: 10,566

Unemployment Rate
Jan 07: 4.6
Current: 9.7

Federal Deficit
Jan 07: $162 billion
Current: 1.5 trillion

Federal Debt
Jan 07: 8.7 trillion
Current: 12.3 trillion

(Additions and corrections welcome)

[Jet Jaguar]

[6SJ7]

The unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in more than five years in October, the government reported Friday, a sign of unexpected strength in the job market.

Always with the "unexpected"; although being a Republican admin at the time, the MSM was naturally "expecting" bad news.

[DoctorBulldog]

From the article: "a sign of unexpected strength in the job market."

Oh, Okay... I think I've got the Lame Stream Media's running narrative now:

Republican in Office = Expected weak job market.
DemonRat in Office = Expected strong job market.

Yup, that would explain why they (the LSM) are always surprised when the real numbers start rolling in.

Kind of a variant on the Self-fulfilling Prophecy syndrome. lol.

Cheers

[MaryFromMichigan]

Food for thought, OB.
I thought this thread, "Michigan's jobless rate rises to 8.9 pct in August 2008" was depressing...
The rate for 2009? 13.6 percent.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yeah, I was going to ask what year this was beamed out of!

[rcrngroup]

I’m going to send this to my dumbass brother & even more stupid sister-in-law, both of whom voted for 0bozo the commie pig, because 0bozo (according to my dumbass brother) was going to “fix” the economy. We have not really been on speaking terms since Oct 2008. I guess he must not have liked it, when I referred to he & his wife as dumbass morons. I don’t understand it? LOL

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I sure miss ‘The Salad Days’ of 2006! *SMIRK*

U-6 figures are nearing 20% That’s counting everyone currently laid off, people who are marginally employed (they’d work MORE hours if more hours were AVAILABLE to them) and those that have just flat-out given up on finding a job anymore.

[Rome2000]

And in response the one of every two persons you see on a daily basis put a San Francisco Marxist named pelosi two heartbeats from the presidency.

Of course the incompetent fossils that pass for GOP “leaders”
wouldn’t dare mention that everything went to hell after the socialists took power in 2006, but that only because their Alzheimers is kicking in and they forgot .

God save us from the imbeciles that surround us and give us the strength to neutralize them

[originalbuckeye]

Both my parents, Conservative to the core, have passed on. I have one sister, a Socialist (how she describes herself) and two Leftist brothers. My older Leftist brother was visiting this weekend. I tried to show him about the unemployment rate but he got so angry he stalked out and went to bed. There are citizens who were brought up right but who will not see the truth. The 60’s did so much damage to our National psyche. Some from that era will never recover. I am sad to say that our nation's survival depends on those of us who remember why our country was founded and has thrived for the last 2+ centuries. I wasn't able to show my brother the statistics of unemployment. He is a true Kool-aid drinker.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Ping, from November, 2006.