Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Well which is it then?
Erm, neither? There's nothing shocking about the fact that public aid would have grown during a recession nor that it would have slowed, but not yet receded as job growth has slowly picked up.
Except that the last bit isn't an accurate representation of what's going on. The growth of public aid has slowed, not the total amount of it. You would expect to see public aid increase when the economic problems are getting worse, level out when they are leveling out, and then decrease when the economy is recovering.
If job growth was really picking up, we should be seeing those public aid numbers decreasing, not just increasing at a slower pace. You're using an incredibly unrealistic yardstick to measure this.
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I know that the Dems will make every effort to try to make it about other stuff
So how's that "All jobs, all the time" House agenda coming along for ya?
We'd find out if your party wasn't blocking it, right? Isn't that the issue? The Dems had two years during which they could pass pretty much any bill they wanted. And yet, during those two years, they didn't make the economy "better". They didn't even make it "the same". It's just now back to getting worse at about the same rate that it was getting worse in the first year of the economic downturn. That's hardly a ringing endorsement of the Dems decision making.
It's not even just that we're a long way from "full recovery", but that we really haven't even started to recover yet. And that's pretty bad after this much time.