So you're making up your own numbers??Ask me if I'm surprised to see you fuck that up as badly as you did...Nah, idiot righties amuse me. Not butthurt at all. And if Obama's a failure, what does that say about Reagan? The unemployment rate is lower now than at this point in his presidency.LOL. You're really butt hurt over this. Face it. Obama is a failure. Nor should have ever been anyone's Preseident.
You might want to check your numbers on that, Faun...six years in Reagan had unemployment down around 5.3 percent which is slightly lower than the 5.4 rate we're at now. More important however is how Reagan arrived at that number. He didn't use six years of Quantitative Easing by the Fed to artificially stimulate jobs or spend trillions in stimulus money to achieve his numbers. Inflation is now a looming problem BECAUSE of the way that we've attacked unemployment and every time a Fed Chief hints at raising interest rates Wall Street starts to crater. What happens if we have another financial crisis? How do you lower interest rates when they are already almost at zero?
April, 2015: 5.4%
April, 1987: 6.3%
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
How the fuck did you think it was 5.3%?
I was adjusting to take into account the 1994 changes in how unemployment was figured. Before that time you were counted as unemployed if you were unemployed and looking for work. After 1994 you were dropped from the count once you had been unemployed for more than 52 weeks. If Reagan's numbers were counted in the same manner as Obama's were, he would have had a lower percentage of unemployment than Barry. That also fails to take into account the large number of part time jobs that have been created under this administration compared to the much smaller number of part time jobs under Reagan.
Let me guess...you didn't have a clue they changed how the numbers were arrived at...did you?
Holyfuckingshit!
Must be nice to not have to deal with reality.
Oh, and did you also account for the changes in age ranges that took effect in 1994 which increased the unemployment rate? Let's see the math you used to come up with the number you made up?
I'm simply pointing out that the way the numbers were compiled changed in 1994...something which you obviously didn't have a clue about or simply decided to ignore. You're citing Reagan's numbers and comparing them to Obama's numbers when the way that those numbers were arrived at are totally different.
I don't expect anything different, Faun...you progressives have been playing fast and loose with the numbers ever since Barry took office. You're the ones who gave us "Jobs created or saved".