Ex-Newsweek's Wolffe: Bush Had 'Worst Jobs Record of Any President in Modern Times'
Appearing as a guest on MSNBC's The Ed Show, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe - formerly of Newsweek - complained that the economic policies of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum "are a repeat of the Bush years," and asserted that President Bush had the "worst jobs record of any President in modern times."
After host Ed Schultz asked "how does Romney and Santorum win over" middle class voters in Ohio, an amused Wolffe recommended that the GOP candidates "change their policies." Wolffe:
Well, they got to, they got to change their policies, for a start. Look, no question, Santorum can tell a good personal story about his family. Where it breaks down for him is that he shares the policies of the Republican party has.
They think jobs - and, by they way, they parrot the language that comes out of focus groups and polls. Everyone says they care about the jobs, so they'll talk - "I'm going to create jobs - jobs, jobs, jobs" - but their policies are a repeat of the Bush years.
The former Newsweek correspondent soon suggested that Jimmy Carter was a better President than George W. Bush. Wolffe:
Less regulation on big business, lower taxes - we just saw Romney promise 20 percent tax cuts across the board last week. What did they give us in the Bush years? Less jobs over eight years than Jimmy Carter created in four. It was the worst jobs record of any President in modern times, and that's the policy they want to repeat.
So you can say that you care about jobs - and heaven knows this economy needs more jobs - but their policies don't relate to people. And as for Romney, he doesn't even have the personal stories to talk about jobs.
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Bush Years
Submitted by TBAR on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 2:41am.
Jobless rates under President Bush were, for the most part, under 5% until the 2007 change in the Congress from Rep. to Dem. There were 52 months of increased GDP. These 2 "Gentlemen" either have no memory or are lying through their teeth. This drivel that they spout is is maddening to read about.
Job creation
Submitted by povertypimpin on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 11:23am.
If unemployment is 4.5% when you become President it is impossible to be at the top of the list when it comes to job creation. You are already at full employment. The best you can do is create enough jobs to maintain the rate and hope that the business cycle will stay at its peak for a few more years.
Obama is actually the worst
Submitted by big.league.slider on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 2:43am.
Obama is actually the worst jobs president in modern times. Based on BLS labor force participation rates, the Carter years were good. The Reagan years were also good.
http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/LNS11300000_108720_13309296...
The Ministry Of Truth Has Spoken, Citizen.
Submitted by wizardjr on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 3:26am.
I am do a jaw drop almost every day when I hear these leftards just make up "facts" and the news weenie just sits there and lets it fly by without challenge.
For one thing, President Bush didn't have to "create" many jobs. He and the Congress 'just' kept the ball rolling with unemployment hovering in the 5% area the whole time. Add to that, his U6 numbers were also stable the entire time right up to the end when the crash hit. Obysmal here is STILL short some six million jobs after three years and U6 stands around 15-16%.
"Who ya gonna believe... me or your lying eyes!?!"
Wolffe must have been sleeping
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 7:27am.
right after 9/11 and then the anthrax scare that the bottom fell out of the stock market and people thought a really serious recession was about to hit. Had the tax cuts not been previously passed by Congress it probably would have been much worse.
The fact that unemployment during that time was below 5% for the most part, is remarkable.
Ed Schultz: The worst jobs
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 8:01am.
Ed Schultz: The worst jobs record in modern times? How can you say that when unemployment was at 5%?
Bazinga!!
Hahaha!! Had you going there for a minute, didn't I?
LOL
Submitted by oldfart on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 9:03am.
Better to keep you mouth shut and be thought of as a fool than to open it and confirm everyone's preception.
What is so sad is that on election day all the progressive/liberal women in the USA won't question it and their spouses/significant other's will just say 'yes dear'.
Did you ever notice that the few remaining cars you see with Obama bumper stickers are all driven by white women that look the same?
There's your base bro.
Joseph Goebbels. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 9:13am.
. . .keeps getting reincarnated. . .
Bullpie Sandwich
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 9:26am.
Get your hot fresh bullpie sandwich! Hot and fresh, bullpie sandwiches! Get 'em while their hot! Bullpie!
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Well I have been looking at
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 9:44am.
Well I have been looking at the historical numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and for the lfe of me cannot see a time during President Bushs term the unemployment rate get anywhere near what President Downgrades. http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea01.htm (For some reason I cannot get links to work on the company computer)
2001 - 4.7
2002 - 5.8
2003 - 6.0
2004 - 5.5
2005 - 5.1
2006 - 4.6
2007 - 4.6
2008 - 5.8 (Do not forget this is when the Dems controlled Congress)
President Downgrade
2009 - 9.3
2010 - 9.6
2011 - 8.9
As TBAR said above, Schultz and Wolffe are do not remember or are lying. I go for the latter.
Scuba
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:54am.
(I almost called you Scoobey)
The libs portrayed the Bush years of unemployment stats as being terrible and us being in an awful economy. I think they repeated the lie so often that they really believe it.
I remember Phil. The
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 11:50am.
I remember Phil. The libturds in the media screaming at the top of their lungs about the "high" unemployment, high gas prices and other things under President Bush. Yet with the numbers even worse under President Downgrade what do we hear?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg
And you can call me Scoobs like others do at NB. ;-)
Full Emplyment
Submitted by Joe W. on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 9:44am.
What a hogwash!!! It is a given fact that statistically speaking, fully 4-5% of the American work force eligible do NOT want to work, nor WILL they go to work. Given that number, President Bush maintained a 5% unemployment rate for the bulk of his Presidency, making the "creation" of jobs unnecessary. This is why we had the invasion of illegals from the south, seeking the many available jobs under President Bush. With Kaptain KissAss driving jobs away, the Mexican invasion has subsided, and more people than during the Great Depression years are seeking after employment and being unsuccessful in doing so. The fact that George W. Bush and his administration did not create all the millions of jobs the left thinks they should have is because there were NO available workers to assume the newly "created" positions. God, how I hate liberals and their affinity for lying and deceiving.
The liberals' lie
Submitted by Kevin Groenhagen on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:04am.
The Bush-era tax cuts were followed by 52 consecutive months of job growth (a record), the creation of more than 8 million new jobs, and an unemployment rate of 5% as late as the spring of 2008. The last budget (FY 2007) passed by a GOP Congress and signed by Bush had a primary budget SURPLUS, i.e., interest payments placed that year's budget in the red.
The jobs situation did change in late 2008 when the housing market bubble burst. That, in turn, was caused by Democrat policies to extend home ownership to those who were not yet ready for home ownership.
So we have two sets of policies: GOP policies that successfully created millions of jobs; and Democrat polices that created the economic mess that started in 2008. Liberals such as Wolffe are dishonestly attempting to blame the economic mess of the former set of policies when the latter set is to blame.
Post Modernism?
Submitted by kozmocostello on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:15am.
I've often wondered what the heck liberal academicians were talking about when they use the term "post-modernism." I still don't know, but if Bush was the worst president in modern times, then Barack Obama must be a post-modern president.
Philosophically speaking...
Submitted by Order270 on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:42am.
...that cracks me up.
The Emperor has no jobs
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 11:18am.
And Dear Leader Obama is going to increase everyone's chocolate ration from 2 ounces a month to 1 ounce a month.
Hail Dear Leader!!
Press Release from NPR
Submitted by oldfart on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 11:44am.
Today at Noon EST, Emperor Barrack Obama I, by the grace of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Alinsky, Emperor the North American Economic Union will announce an increase in the food ration for all ‘citizens’ of his realm. The ration of soylent green will increase from one liter per day to 500 milliliters, an increase of 500%
Editor’s note: The statement above has as much logic as the other crap that comes out of National Propaganda Radio.
The Wolff Man
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 12:19pm.
never lets facts get in the way ...after all he's written 2 books on the Great Obama
Just another Obama White House Progagandist with knee pads
He is the perfect.....
Submitted by soCal on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 4:09pm.
replacement to Bagdad Bob
Wolffe Droppings
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 6:50pm.
Ah, Wolffe, Dick has crawled out from under a Rock, I see. Lets call a spade a spade, dumbass. Atleast Bush COUNTED people that were, you know, seasonally adjusted out of the workforce and people that weren't looking for work. Your lord and savior Barack Hussein Obama just flat out lies about it with the media aiding and abetting it. You are scum, period.