PULL THE OTHER LEG
Your hindsight needs a new pair of glasses. You are not telling the whole story in that remark.
In 2009, after having been handed on a platter the Great Recession by a Dunderhead PotUS, Obama immediately had a Dem-Congress pass the
ARRA-Spending Bill, which spiked a burgeoning Unemployment Rate at 10% - see that fact
here.
Total ARRA-spending was a wee-bit less than half a trillion dollars and across Federal agencies, as described
here by the CBO (scroll down to chart of spending breakdown by Federal department).
Because Obama demonstrated that he could not "walk on water" and stop-dead the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression, the American electorate in 2010 (that is, the 57% of voters who bothered to show up at the polls) turned the HofR over to the Replicant Party. Who promptly started axing all Stimulus Spending based upon the spurious notion - in a full-fledged recession - that constraining the National Debt was priority.
I submit that their intent was far more malicious. They specifically desired high-employment for the 2012 elections to oust Obama. Didn't work, did it?
But how many of our fellow-Americans continued to suffer unemployment. Look at the Employment-to-population Ratio from 2012 to 2014.
Four long years of Employment Stagnation at about 25.5% of the nation's workforce, before employment started to regain momentum in 2014. (The HofR is still controlled by the Replicants.)
And it was all Obama's fault?
Yeah, right - now pull the other leg ...