Which US President had the most months of below 6% unemployment?

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Which U.S. President had the most months of below 6% unemployment?

ANSWER: George W. Bush - During the 96 months that George Bush was president, 83 of those months saw the country experience unemployment that was below 6%. No other President in U.S. history has a higher total! In second and third place are Eisenhower with 79 and Clinton with 76.

Which U.S. President had -6% real GDP growth in his last full quarter in office?

 

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Which U.S. President had the most months of below 6% unemployment?

ANSWER: George W. Bush - During the 96 months that George Bush was president, 83 of those months saw the country experience unemployment that was below 6%. No other President in U.S. history has a higher total! In second and third place are Eisenhower with 79 and Clinton with 76.

Which U.S. President had -6% real GDP growth in his last full quarter in office?

A. That is not the topic.

B. A Presidents last full quarter in office is not his ENTIRE TIME in office. If your honest and objective, you would also be looking at the other 31 quarters that Bush was in office.

C. For the first quarter of 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower presided over a -10% drop in real GDP. Do you judge Eisenhower's time in office by that single quarter?

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

The FACT remains, George W. Bush is the President with the most months of unemployment BELOW 6% in United States History!

W was riding the wave of Clinton's booming economy. Once he and the GOP were done destroying it and turning the nation's policies into their radical right wing dream, the economy crashed and we were losing over 1/2 a million jobs a month because of these fuckers.

W ended his presidency with a net lose in private sector jobs, only a complete idiot pulls that one off, and those idiots were the GOP.

That is actually not true. During Bush's first year in office, the economy went into recession. So, the Bush administration actually had a difficult situation to deal with from the start.

Except that it wasn't "from the start". The economy was not in recession when Bush took office.

Despite that, George Bush got the record while he was in office for having the most months of unemployment BELOW 6%.

He is #1 in US history in that regard!

The unemployment rate increased from 4.2% to 7.8% under Bush. He's #1 in my entire 36 year life in that regard. Wonder how old I'd have to be for that statement to not be true?

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Which U.S. President had the most months of below 6% unemployment?

ANSWER: George W. Bush - During the 96 months that George Bush was president, 83 of those months saw the country experience unemployment that was below 6%. No other President in U.S. history has a higher total! In second and third place are Eisenhower with 79 and Clinton with 76.

Which U.S. President had -6% real GDP growth in his last full quarter in office?

A. That is not the topic.

Its a record, isn't it?

B. A Presidents last full quarter in office is not his ENTIRE TIME in office. If your honest and objective, you would also be looking at the other 31 quarters that Bush was in office.

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I prefer to judge Presidents by where they take us from and where they take us to. True, using only the last quarter is probably not very fair - but if you look at his last two years in office GDP wasn't much better.

C. For the first quarter of 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower presided over a -10% drop in real GDP. Do you judge Eisenhower's time in office by that single quarter?

Of course not. It would make far more sense to consider the shape he left the country in when he left office.

 

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Which U.S. President had -6% real GDP growth in his last full quarter in office?

A. That is not the topic.

Its a record, isn't it?

B. A Presidents last full quarter in office is not his ENTIRE TIME in office. If your honest and objective, you would also be looking at the other 31 quarters that Bush was in office.

I prefer to judge Presidents by where they take us from and where they take us to. True, using only the last quarter is probably not very fair - but if you look at his last two years in office GDP wasn't much better.

C. For the first quarter of 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower presided over a -10% drop in real GDP. Do you judge Eisenhower's time in office by that single quarter?

Of course not. It would make far more sense to consider the shape he left the country in when he left office.[/QUOTE]

In terms of negative GDP growth in a single quarter, its not. Plus, this is about which President had the most number of months of unemployment BELOW 6%!

Most honest and objective people will judge a President by their ENTIRE time in office, and will not cherry pick the FIRST month and the LAST month of the Presidency to make a judgement.

The fact of the matter is, having below 6% unemployment for 83 months is a great record, and an honest and objective person, even if they did not support Bush, would at least acknowledge that!