The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

[rightwinger]

That is highly unlikely. There is an even chance he might do better than Ford in the last months of 2016, but its far from certain.

For sure, he'll never touch W.

W left office after doubling the unemployment rate and losing 700,000 jobs a month

His legacy is the reason we are talking about Obamas average

11 months before W left office, the unemployment rate was sitting at 4.9%, historically low. His average for all 96 months in office is 5.27%, one of the best in the history of the United States Of America. The Unemployment rate did shoot up in his very last months in office, but that does not erase what happened throughout 90% of the time he was in office. When he left office in January 2009, the latest reported rate was 7.3%, which is NOT a doubling of the unemployment rate while he was in office.

Bush left office bleeding 700,000 jobs a month. No President since Hoover was as bad

Bottom line, President Obama will leave his successor a much better economy than he was given

 

[The Rabbi]

W left office after doubling the unemployment rate and losing 700,000 jobs a month

His legacy is the reason we are talking about Obamas average

11 months before W left office, the unemployment rate was sitting at 4.9%, historically low. His average for all 96 months in office is 5.27%, one of the best in the history of the United States Of America. The Unemployment rate did shoot up in his very last months in office, but that does not erase what happened throughout 90% of the time he was in office. When he left office in January 2009, the latest reported rate was 7.3%, which is NOT a doubling of the unemployment rate while he was in office.

Bush left office bleeding 700,000 jobs a month. No President since Hoover was as bad

Bottom line, President Obama will leave his successor a much better economy than he was given

Your powers of prophecy are phenomenal, given Obama still has 3 years left. At this juncture of course Bush would say the same thing. He'd be right too.
Obama's recovery has been worse than Bush's recession.

 

[rightwinger]

When all is said and done, Obama will be looked at as a President who saved us from a depression and left the country in much better shape than he received it

What more could we ask

 

[The Rabbi]

When all is said and done, Obama will be looked at as a President who saved us from a depression and left the country in much better shape than he received it

What more could we ask

Again, your powers of prophecy are amazing. There is a very good chance we will enter a recession again in the next 3 years. Obama will be remembered as the president who instituted the biggest changes to the economy, and those changes resulted in the largest failures of public policy in history.
Every promise made for Obamacare will be shown to have been false. It will go down as the Smoot Hawley of the 21st century.

 

[jasonnfree]

The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

Barrack Obama: 8.86%

Average Unemployment Rates For US Presidents since World War II:

01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
04. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
05. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
06. George W. Bush: 5.27%
07. John Kennedy: 5.98%
08. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
09. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
10. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
11. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
12. Barack Obama: 8.86%

Grasping at straws. In the history books it will be "republicans crash economies." The great depression and the republican crash of 2008

 

[rightwinger]

Who got us through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? Bush?

Fraid not....it was President Obama

 

[rightwinger]

The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

Barrack Obama: 8.86%

Average Unemployment Rates For US Presidents since World War II:

01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
04. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
05. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
06. George W. Bush: 5.27%
07. John Kennedy: 5.98%
08. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
09. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
10. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
11. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
12. Barack Obama: 8.86%

Grasping at straws. In the history books it will be "republicans crash economies." The great depression and the republican crash of 2008

true that

 

[JakeStarkey]

Worst president UE rate since WWII?

Easy.

Ronnie Reagan at 10.8% during the last quarter of 1983.

 

[The Rabbi]

Who got us through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? Bush?

Fraid not....it was President Obama

Got us through? My grandmother got us through.
Who blew up the budget on a failed stimulus?
Who engineered the take over of better than 1/6th of the economy?
Who savaged bankruptcy law?
Who has the worst record of economic recovery post WW2 evah?

 

[Synthaholic]

The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

Barrack Obama: 8.86%

Average Unemployment Rates For US Presidents since World War II:

01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
04. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
05. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
06. George W. Bush: 5.27%
07. John Kennedy: 5.98%
08. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
09. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
10. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
11. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
12. Barack Obama: 8.86%

What's the time period that's being measured?

As [MENTION=26784]Agit8r[/MENTION] posted in another thread:

So, President Jimmy Carter handed Ronnie 7.50% unemployment in January 1981, which Ronnie turned into 10.80% unemployment by December of 1982!

That's 24 months! By today's wingnut argument, Carter can't be held responsible for Reagan's 10.80% unemployment - he's been in office for TWO YEARS!!1!ZOMG!!!

 

[paulitician]

Hey, did you know he's good friends with Jay-Z and Beyonce? Well, he is. That's bleepin JAY-Z and BEYONCE for God sake! They're awesome! So high Unemployment doesn't matter brutha. It's all good.

 

[The Rabbi]

The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

Barrack Obama: 8.86%

Average Unemployment Rates For US Presidents since World War II:

01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
04. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
05. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
06. George W. Bush: 5.27%
07. John Kennedy: 5.98%
08. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
09. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
10. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
11. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
12. Barack Obama: 8.86%

What's the time period that's being measured?

As [MENTION=26784]Agit8r[/MENTION] posted in another thread:

So, President Jimmy Carter handed Ronnie 7.50% unemployment in January 1981, which Ronnie turned into 10.80% unemployment by December of 1982!

That's 24 months! By today's wingnut argument, Carter can't be held responsible for Reagan's 10.80% unemployment - he's been in office for TWO YEARS!!1!ZOMG!!!

Aannnd, that argument is gone.

 

[U2Edge]

The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

Barrack Obama: 8.86%

Average Unemployment Rates For US Presidents since World War II:

01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
04. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
05. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
06. George W. Bush: 5.27%
07. John Kennedy: 5.98%
08. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
09. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
10. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
11. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
12. Barack Obama: 8.86%

What's the time period that's being measured?

As [MENTION=26784]Agit8r[/MENTION] posted in another thread:

So, President Jimmy Carter handed Ronnie 7.50% unemployment in January 1981, which Ronnie turned into 10.80% unemployment by December of 1982!

That's 24 months! By today's wingnut argument, Carter can't be held responsible for Reagan's 10.80% unemployment - he's been in office for TWO YEARS!!1!ZOMG!!!

The time period being measured is January 1948 to the most recent month for which unemployment figures are available which is January 2014. The Bureau of labor statistics has the monthly unemployment figures going all the way back to January 1948. Each month that a President was in office has that unemployment rate added up and then divided by total months in office to arrive at the average unemployment rate experienced while that President was in the White House. Its not about what the unemployment rate was the last month the President was in office or the first month. Its about all the months that they were in office, sometimes up to 96 months which is a very long time. The only way to assess all that time and those months is to take the average. Looking at just one month at the end or the beginning leaves out 98% of what things were like when the President was on the job!

 

[paulitician]

Y'all just be hatin. He chills with Jay-Z and Beyonce all the time. And dats all that matters. Y'all need to quit the hatin. Fo reals.

 

[rightwinger]

Y'all just be hatin. He chills with Jay-Z and Beyonce all the time. And dats all that matters. Y'all need to quit the hatin. Fo reals.

That's funny.....is that how black people talk?

 

[Spoonman]

Who cares? Presidents don't decide who works or who doesn't.

I'm just curious. Why would you average in the first month or 3 months or 6 months of a president's term implying that he had anything to do with that unemployment rate?

of course if the numbers were lower you would be hailing Obama as a god claiming he was responsible for fixing the economy

 

[paulitician]

Y'all just be hatin. He chills with Jay-Z and Beyonce all the time. And dats all that matters. Y'all need to quit the hatin. Fo reals.

That's funny.....is that how black people talk?

Ah, if a Republican had these same dismal numbers, you'd be the first little Obamabot loon to screech Impeachment. This one sums up you Bot meatheads perfectly...


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ]Help Obama Kickstart World War III! - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Synthaholic]

The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

Barrack Obama: 8.86%

Average Unemployment Rates For US Presidents since World War II:

01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
04. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
05. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
06. George W. Bush: 5.27%
07. John Kennedy: 5.98%
08. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
09. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
10. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
11. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
12. Barack Obama: 8.86%

What's the time period that's being measured?

As @Agit8r posted in another thread:

So, President Jimmy Carter handed Ronnie 7.50% unemployment in January 1981, which Ronnie turned into 10.80% unemployment by December of 1982!

That's 24 months! By today's wingnut argument, Carter can't be held responsible for Reagan's 10.80% unemployment - he's been in office for TWO YEARS!!1!ZOMG!!!

Aannnd, that argument is gone.

It's not gone.

Don't you see where it goes up to 10.80% at the end of 1982? It's right there in your own chart!

 

[Synthaholic]

Y'all just be hatin. He chills with Jay-Z and Beyonce all the time. And dats all that matters. Y'all need to quit the hatin. Fo reals.

That's funny.....is that how black people talk?

in his head, yes.

 

[Synthaholic]

The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?

Barrack Obama: 8.86%

Average Unemployment Rates For US Presidents since World War II:

01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
04. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
05. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
06. George W. Bush: 5.27%
07. John Kennedy: 5.98%
08. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
09. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
10. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
11. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
12. Barack Obama: 8.86%

What's the time period that's being measured?

As @Agit8r posted in another thread:

So, President Jimmy Carter handed Ronnie 7.50% unemployment in January 1981, which Ronnie turned into 10.80% unemployment by December of 1982!

That's 24 months! By today's wingnut argument, Carter can't be held responsible for Reagan's 10.80% unemployment - he's been in office for TWO YEARS!!1!ZOMG!!!

The time period being measured is January 1948 to the most recent month for which unemployment figures are available which is January 2014. The Bureau of labor statistics has the monthly unemployment figures going all the way back to January 1948. Each month that a President was in office has that unemployment rate added up and then divided by total months in office to arrive at the average unemployment rate experienced while that President was in the White House. Its not about what the unemployment rate was the last month the President was in office or the first month. Its about all the months that they were in office, sometimes up to 96 months which is a very long time. The only way to assess all that time and those months is to take the average. Looking at just one month at the end or the beginning leaves out 98% of what things were like when the President was on the job!

That's not what I'm asking.

You didn't include a link for your OP, so you could have pulled those numbers out of your ass.

But assuming they are valid, are they comparing Reagan's 8 years to GHW Bush's 4 years? That's not a fair analysis.

A Gerald Ford enthusiast could rightfully claim that his guy had the lowest % of increase in unemployment throughout his term. May be true, but he was POTUS for 2.5 years.

Hell, you can make William Henry Harrison out to be one of our best presidents manipulating data like that.