The DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, claims in this video that unemployment is NOT up under Obama:

So, now for an injection of real facts.

According to the Bureau of Labor & Statistics, even as slanted as their own recent numbers have been, show that over 1.5 million jobs are not gone since Obama flubbed his Oath at the Inauguration.

Employment in January 2009:  142.1 million  (link to source)

Employment in November 2011: 140.5 million (link to source) - NOTE: this link is to the current report, which was November 2011 when this blog entry was written. After this month, this link may change

Do the math, 142.1 - 140.5 = 1.5 million more people unemployed under Obama.

There has been a hilarious liberal story running around recently that Obama has created more jobs in 3 years than Bush did in 10 (for the record, he was only in office 8 years, but don’t confuse liberals with facts).

Let’s use the same source to find out, shall we?

Employment in January 2001: 135.05 million (link to source)

Again, from above, Employment by January 2009 was 142.1 million.

Again, the math:

142.1 - 130.05 = 7.05 million people went back to work under Bush.

So, Bush creates 7.05 million and Obama destroys 1.5 million.

The BLS was reporting an unemployment rate of about 9% this month. If the universe of jobs were at the levels seen during the last year of Bush, the unemployment rate would be more like 12% and that’s just the U-3 levels. U-6 would be over 20%. Keep in mind that the Great Depression saw rates of unemployment up to 25%, and the average worker was out of work only 6 months. Under Obama, they run through nearly 2 years of unemployment checks and then are still unemployed.

So, How wonderful is Obama?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?