Name:   architect - Subject:   recession Date:   6/5/2016 4:24:58 PM (updated 6/5/2016 4:39:50 PM)

Interesting to see the gloom and doom with all blame being placed on Obama because I went back and looked at your posts back on Nov 14, 2014 (330,000 new jobs) and Oct 15, 2015 (305,000 new jobs) and Feb 16, 2016 (260,000 new jobs) to see where you gave all the credit to Obama...they seem to have been deleterd.  Sorry, you can't have it both ways guys.  Obama has minimal to do with the 9,000,000 net gain in jobs since he took office just as W had very little to do with the minescule net gain in jobs during his tenure.  To convince you the president has much less to do with job creation than most people seem to assume, please look back at the stats for the 4 years of Jimmy Carter (1976 - 1980).  There were more new jobs per year in those 4 than during either 4 year terms of Reagan or Clinton.  In fact there were more new jobs in that 4 year span than any 4 years in our history.  Was it Carter's policies or just, perhaps, was it the fact that the baby boomers were hitting the job market.  Economics and demographics drive job growth or decline...not partisan politics!

Of course Lifer does make some good points...if I was thinking of hiring I would sure as he// wait until The Donald was out of the picture before placing the help wanted ads!