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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

A Million Times Better

Think Progress: Are We Better Off? 10 Headlines From September 2008:
STOCK SHOCK FELT ROUND THE WORLD. Gets ‘nasty’ as Lehman tanks, Merrill vanishes, AIG wobbles [New York Daily News, September 16, 2008]
Depression Coming? Boil Some Beans; Ladies Who Quilt Give Tips On Surviving Tough Times [Albuquerque Journal, September 21, 2008]
One day on the brink On Wednesday, it seemed U.S. economy might collapse [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 21, 2008]
‘Great Depression’ closer than U.S. admits, report finds [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 27, 2008]
Will Bush become the new Hoover? [Politico, September 19, 2008]
Developers bend under housing meltdown [Colorado Springs Gazette, September 27, 2008]
Depression seen possible [Florida News-Press, September 27, 2008]
Wall Street Meltdown Continues [CNN, September 17, 2008]
Is It Really the Next ‘Great Depression’? [NPR, September 19, 2008]
Behind Closed Doors, Warnings of Calamity [The New York Times, September 20, 2008]
That's a good way to look at it.  Another way is this: when Obama took over from Romney's team GOP we were losing nearly 800,000 a month and now we've gained jobs for 27 straight months, usually between 100,000 and 200,000 jobs.  What that means is basically for the last two years we've been a million jobs a MONTH better than the GOP.

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