Bush v. Obama

Better times versus now.

This table is called a Labor Force Participation rate table.  The number for each month for the last ten years shows the percentage of people employed by the labor force.  It shows the ratio of people working in proportion to the overall population of civilian adults.  The higher the number, the more people are gainfully employed in the labor force

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2002	62.0	62.5	62.5	62.6	62.9	63.1	63.2	63.0	63.0	63.0	62.5	62.4	62.7
2003	61.8	62.0	62.1	62.3	62.3	62.7	62.6	62.4	62.1	62.4	62.4	62.3	62.3
2004	61.6	61.8	61.9	62.1	62.3	62.7	63.0	62.7	62.4	62.6	62.6	62.4	62.3
2005	61.7	61.8	62.0	62.5	62.7	63.1	63.4	63.2	62.9	63.2	62.9	62.8	62.7
2006	62.2	62.3	62.6	62.8	63.1	63.5	63.6	63.4	63.2	63.6	63.5	63.5	63.1
2007	62.6	62.6	62.9	62.8	63.0	63.4	63.5	63.0	63.0	63.1	63.2	62.8	63.0
2008	62.2	62.1	62.3	62.6	62.5	62.8	62.8	62.3	62.0	62.0	61.6	61.0	62.2
2009	59.8	59.6	59.5	59.8	59.6	59.8	59.8	59.3	58.9	58.8	58.8	58.2	59.3
2010	57.8	57.9	58.2	58.7	58.7	58.9	58.9	58.8	58.6	58.6	58.4	58.3	58.5
2011	57.6	57.8	58.1	58.4	58.5	58.5	58.6	58.5	58.5	58.7	58.7	58.5	58.4
2012	57.8	58.0	58.3	58.5	58.7	58.9	58.8	58.5	58.8	59.0	58.8

The numbers show that as soon as Obama took office, coupled with "liberal" control of Congress, there was an immediate and sustained drop in the number of employed workers.

You can see from the 2012  figures, last month's "drop in the unemployment rate" is a fiction. If anything, the figures show an increase in unemployment.

The numbers undeniably show the policies of the current administration have caused a sustained drop in employment and therefore a sustained increase in Americans misery. 

How did this guy get re-elected?

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All data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

Its gotten worse.