According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 22.7 million jobs were added between January 1993 and January 2001. (See total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted — the standard measure of jobs.) BLS data show there was a net increase of nearly 1.1 million jobs from January 2001 to January 2009

a simple answer to the question:

FU#k NO!!!!

ya, i am still in shock that most of you voted him back in....whats up with that??? not real bright are you. (you know who you are)

Better off if your a passenger on the entitlement train- and I support your sorry butt.

No, I'm not better off- and yes, I can hold this president accountable along with the last one.

BLS data for total nonfarm seasonally adjusted jobs show the U.S. had 130,346,000 jobs as of December 2010, up from 129,319,000 in December 2009. That’s 1,027,000 new jobs — slightly less than the 1,095,000 jobs created in Bush’s eight years, from January 2001 to January 2009. The U.S. added more than 1.8 million jobs in 2011. FactCheck.org

There is one major problem with the unemployment reporting. It is reported quarter to quarter. My wife has been unemployed for 3 years. We went from a two income household to a one income. My question is how many families have exhausted unemployment benefits and one or both have not found adequate employment. If the 7.5% reported unemployment is actually 10% higher due to unemployment benefits being exhausted. It would rather be more around the 10% mark. If we look at the more desolate employment market where the jobs have gone abroad there is a higher job loss. All in all we are really looking at least around 10% to 15% unemployment. Lets get real here, Obama promised shovel ready gobs. It never happened. No it is not his fault, however if congress would have passed laws keeping companies here and not allowing them to go to Mexico, China, Guatemala, Taiwan so they could pay workers less and still ship their good here. For goodness sake Hershy's moved to Mexico getting rid of 15,000 American jobs. That was 1 (one) company. There have been hundreds. You can believe the employment reporting or not but just remember it does not include people who have lost their job exausted unemployment and have not found new work.

Obama has been a huge improvement from Bush. He reversed the stem cell research ban, fixed our roads and bridges, switched the war focus from Iraq to Afganistan and Pakistan, Killed Bin Laden, ended dont ask dont tell in the military. However, our labor market is horrible. The white collar jobs are overpayed, the blue collar jobs are dissapearing, and the polo shirt retail jobs are hardly worth having. Nearly 1 in 6 Americans are on food stamps. Govt benefits are supposed to be a short term safety net, but are being used as a long term solution The country will not survive with this format

I'm trying to buy into Obama's hype, however as it becomes harder each month to get by on a frozen paycheck I find it harder to buy into Obama,congress, or the houses half assed BS.

according to the Tax Foundation, 9 of the top 10 recipients of federal money for social services are red states--

Mississippi, Alaska, LA, WV, ND, Alabama, SD, VA & KY.

The top 10 states that pay out more in federal dollars than they receive? All are blue states--

New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware,
California, New York, Colorado.

So i guess when Romney was talking about the 47%, he was talking about his own votig base. Lol What an idiot

for those that do not know, our government is dipping in to peoples retirement fund for government spending. (if that were in the private sector we would go to jail. it is stealing from old people....why is no one upset by this?? i guess they will be when they realize that "they have no retirement". shakeing my head....

Yea, we are better off then........... Being dead. This bastard has destroyed the economy, turned the United States into a welfare state. The bastard has turn the nation upon itself. There is nothing that this bastard has done to better these United States. I thank those of you that re-elected him. Because of you, All of us including you now have a debt the we cannot pay. So thank you for screwing this country up..

Top states of non tax paying citizen sucking up the economy http://www.taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/UserFiles/Image/Fiscal%20Facts/20100524-229-nonpayers-map-.jpg

HELL NO WERE NOT .this piece of @!$%# of a leader is only worried now about his legacy four years from now you will see how screwed up this country is then all you liberals can shove it along with that pile of crap in the whitehouse

each person will pay at least 823.00 more in taxes this year....so much for the people over 500.000 being the only ones it will effect. my wife just added up ours and we will pay 6900 more in taxes this year...we are getting really tired of getting worked to death to pay for all these dead beats and our government buying them to get votes... they sit on there dead buts and collect a check while we do the responcible thing and work hard for our money. whats wrong with this picture??? are we the suckers after all?

Look here fellow Americans put all these comments in the trash because none of them mean anything..My grandfather would turn over in his grave if he knew how this country has turned to @!$%# and especially now that we have a muslum as a leader.For one Obama isn't black or african american he is not even american so as far as america having there 1st black leader well blow that out the door all you blacks have been lied to because Obama is as much black as the leader of the KKk is.Obama needs to be fired and we need to bring in a true american not some Muslum.

What a joke of an article by an agency owned by Obama. Every positive has a negative right after it. We are on a BAD path and picking up speed. 2016 is going to leave a hollowed out, poor, angry America. Obama is the biggest failure of a president we've ever had, even worse than Carter. 48% of the country voted against him. Most devicive president ever. NBC polls ... HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Another great piece of NBC propaganda for us all to salivate over. How about, here are 10 positive results of: slavery, nazis, caligula, napoleon, lenin, stalin...... I think if you twist numbers and rearrange fact to suit your needs... hey, anything would seem an improvement. Read to believe or read to learn folks.

The 8 disastrous years of Bush/Cheney did so much damage to this country, that it will take 50 years to fully recover. NeoCons can try to deny it all they want, but the facts are all in. Obama will spend his ENTIRE 8 YEARS as President, being Hectored by a Neanderthal, Racist, Obstructionist GOP, while he struggles mightily to undo the damage done by the "Smirking Chimp", George W. Bush and his Chickenhawk advisors (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton & Co.).

Why doesn't NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN just come out and be honest and state that they are lobbiests for Obama, the Left, the Socialists, the Progressives, the Democrat Party, and the neo fascist in control of this country. such honesty would be refreshing.

Liberal economist Paul Krugman is disappointed with Obama. Says he has not spent enough! He says we are in a lesser depression, and unemployment is actually 16%. Maybe I could agree with the guy spending more for infrastructure to provide jobs for some concrete spending cuts in the future.

We already screwed up the shovel ready jobs! Remember!

As an older person that saved a lot during his lifetime . Obama has made things so much worse for me. Interest rates this low have ruined the extra income I used to get and the stock market does not work well for me. Now I hear that he is willing to further decimate social security cost of living increases to make a deal with republicans on the debt ceiling. Republicans pretend that he is this socialist radical but that could not be further from the truth. He is willing to sacrifice the well being of older americans to fund useless money wasting programs like the atrocity called obamacare. If you are an older middle class american, you will be better off dead then living with the horror of what I call the obomb.

How could Obama or anyone in this administration and the cabinet fix anything? They have never had a real job, never made payroll, they have not a clue what its like to run a business and yet, 51% of the Am people voted for people to fix the US who don't know how. The US has just proven that the majority are brainless, uneducated, believers in imaginary god and socialist utopia to fix this country's problems, and ergo, we are doomed.

What did anyone expect would happen to this country after paying dumb, uneducated, poor women to breed and be rewarded by welfare checks for the past 50 years. Did anyone really, really think that such a massive infusion of ignorant, Low IQ people who vote would know enough, or have enough brains to vote for the right people?

This is what happens when a nation engages in paid Dysgenics (paying dumb people to breed) and not Eugenics (rewarding intelligent people by lower taxes and less regulations) to have children, or just keep the money they have to raise intelligent children.

Go ahead, call me a racist. I could give a flying flip, you dummies and delusional socialist utopian twits have destroyed my country and it is not going to get better.

And take a note: Scientists are working night and day to find a planet to live on, and get there, and they are NOT going to take any idiotic Christians or neoreligious socialist utopian twits with them. Bye bye.

i am a business man and can tell you that the government sure as heck is not helping business. we are being targeted, prayed upon and blocked and hindered at every corner. but no one cares. most businesses know what i am saying. these guys would not know how to create a job if it hit them in the ass. there are less and less jobs in our country. less and less tax revenue. eventualy they will run out of people to milk and out of money. then the game will be over and they will reap what they sewed.

Hmmm....pertaining to my pay over the past 5 years, I guess if I use the old saying "Less is more"; I am doing much, much better. Hopefully my company, thee world-class leader of a particular computer component realizes that the economy is soaring once again so we can return to full capicity manufacturing. I tend to believe in another old saying, "Liars figure, and figures lie". In this case, although the figures may be correct; certianly can be seen that the time period used minimizes the damage did by the current President. Confidence greatly diminished on the day he was elected.

A new word has been created since the anti-America, black racist was re-elected

Ineptocracy

DEFINITION: (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.