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Now let's look at these liew, point by point, shall we?
Firstly, the unemployment data.
Rush stated "under the Bush administration, unemployment was 5.0%", citing figures from April of 2008.
What he neglected to mention was that by Obama's first month in office, February of 2009, unemployment had already reached 8.1%.
This is a lie, specifically a lie of omission.
Unemployment was at historical lows during most of Bush's Presidency, it was 7.6% when he left office.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
If you look at the above chart you can quite clearly see it was low throught his entire Presidency. I remember the libs complaining about 6% being high, they'd kill to get those numbers back. Bush did not control the banks and real estate sectors to prevent the failures and subsequent economic freefall. This is attributed to folks like the Congressional Black Caucus, Barney Frank, and community organizer lawyers like the Hussein who sued banks and forced banks to start giving loans to people who had no business getting them.
The corporate bailouts that Hussein blessed and conservatives protested against have done nothing to better the economy, that is all on Hussein and his Democrats. You can throw Bush in there too he went along with the Democrat Congress in his last few months.
Hussein and the Democrats in Congress did not "inherit" this mess, they helped create it.
And at 8.1% in February. People have to wait 2 weeks before they can claim unemployment.