gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 1/9/2009
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The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 7.2 percent in December , the highest level since Bill Clinton was in office. Worse than that... This now means that the average unemployment rate during the Bush years reached the same threatening level as it was during the Clinton years... Although ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/9/2009
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WASHINGTON The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 7.2
percent in December, the highest since early 1993, as...
nervous employers slashed 524,000 jobs. The Labor Department's report, released Friday, underscored the terrible toll the deepening ...
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Jobless rate jumps to 7.2 percent in December - Yahoo! News
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A Depression!
Maggie's Farm —
It must be a depression. Unemployment figures now reach Clinton Administration levels.
Obama’s October Deficit LARGER Than Bush Deficit For ENTIRE YEAR of 2007
Gateway Pundit —
... from 412 billion dollars in 2004 to 162 billion dollars in 2007, a sixty percent drop. In 2004 the federal budget deficit was 412 billion dollars. In 2005 it dropped to 318 billion dollars. In 2006 the deficit dipped to 248 billion dollars. And, in 2007 it fell below 200 billion to 162 billion dollars. During the Bush years the average unemployment rate was 5.2 percent, the economy saw the ...
"Obama tripled the national deficit his first year in office"
Wizbang —
... from 412 billion dollars in 2004 to 162 billion dollars in 2007, a sixty percent drop. In 2004 the federal budget deficit was 412 billion dollars. In 2005 it dropped to 318 billion dollars. In 2006 the deficit dipped to 248 billion dollars. And, in 2007 it fell below 200 billion to 162 billion dollars . During the Bush years the average unemployment rate was 5.2 percent , the economy saw the ...
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Jobless rate jumps to 7.2 percent in December - Yahoo! Finance
finance.yahoo.com 1/9/2009 — WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 7.2 percent in December, the highest level in 16 years, as nervous employers slashed 524,000 jobs. The labor market is expected to remain weak as mass layoffs continue. The Labor ...
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