They cherry pick one misleading stat, don't present it in context or don't explain the whole picture, then on to the next one.
:Cough: Kind of like only showing the "Bush" part of your "From Bush to Obama" dating back to Dec 2007 instead of actually showing the entire time of his Presidency and his job totals? That kind of cherry picking?
Not to mention pointing to statistics are a fun way to get "Facts". That's the wonderful thing about politics...so much of it is perception. For example, someone could point out from your graph that the dip in Job Growth came post 2006, when Democrats took back over the Congress, and that prior to that we were gaining, not losing, jobs.
Still others could choose not to cherry pick, like yourself, or be hyper partisan, like yourself, and take a more measured look at it.
For the past 20 years our job growth has been in a relatively similar location save for a few instances that partisans will argue is one parties fault or another but in reality has the finger prints of both sides on them.
From 1992 to 2012 you'll notice our that the majority of the time our economy turns a positive number in terms of jobs, and those numbers generally 1500 to 3000 range on the chart, give or take a bit. The times during that period that we did not do that? 2001.2002...9/11 and the remanents of the tech bubble bursting. 2008/2009, the housing bubble bursting. Shocker that a terrorist attack on the economic center of our country mixed with a bubble bursting and then later a second bubble bursting that was tied to an industry that is interwoven with all business (in the banks) caused massive issues for our economy.
The reality is that the American Economy and the engine of capitalism is largley one that, while perhaps tweaked by those in power, largely propels itself forward with or without government. Government is like adding a fuel injection cleaner to your car or not inflating your tires all year....sure, it may help or harm the efficiency of your car going a bit, but those things sure as hell aren't what's making your car actually GO. I watch people blame Bush for 2008 and 2009 while ignoring or writing off the improvement under him after 9/11...but then they turn around and ignore the first years under Obama completely writing those off and seem to think that some good years now means that its a success, as if a similar fall such as happened after Bush's success through MOST of his Presidency would be IMPOSSIBLE.
Quite frankly the economy is bigger than both of them and congress, and while they've undoubtably exerted some affect onto it...good or bad based on your opinions....by and large the dips and the climbs have more to do with the power and ability of the American economic system.
