Unemployment % 

1929   3.2        2007    5.0       sub prime band was playing *

1930   8.7        2008    7.3       Paulsen kneels before Nancy Pelosi

1931 15.9        2009     9.9      GM, Chrysler,AIG and the world, saved

1932 23.6        2010     9.3      Obamacare passed in "Reconciliation"

1933 24.9        2011     8.5    

 1934 21.7       2012     7.9

1935 20.1       2013     6.7

1936 16.9       2014     5.6

1937 14.3      2015      5.0

1938  19.0     2016      4.7

*Citicorp CEO:     " as long as the music's playing you've got to get up and dance.  "   revised

Taking over in the second year of the world financial crisis he inherited from Greenspan and W, ,Obama fixed it. End of story.

There was no "economic" inevitability for US unemployment  to start down in 2010. He was there , he did what he did ,and unemployment started down. Painfully .

And the next year he got us into the Health Care ballpark. To quote Tom Peter's : "Do it, fix it."

Rather than debating  whether  it's the Government's job to make citizens healthier  he started  doing it.  It'll have to be fixed of course. But before you can fix something  you gotta have something to fix.

For our sins the Good  Lord has inflicted the anti-Obama upon us . But this too will pass. Meanwhile we can console ourselves with memories of the best president since Lincoln.

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