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Romney suggests that we should be creating 500,000 jobs a month.
Romney waxes nostalgically about the dream-like economy during the Bush Administration, before the Democrats ruined everything.
He promises a return to those years.
In how many months of the 96 months of the Bush Administration were 500,000 or more jobs created?
Excluding 2002, there were 58,000 jobs created per month during the Bush Administration.
Excluding 2002 and 2008--which seems unfair, given that the Bush Administration had 7 years to shape the economy in the way they wanted leading up to 2008--there were 130,000 jobs created per month during the Bush Administration.
This, it seems worth noting, is almost exactly the same as the 131,000 jobs created per month during the Obama Administration (excluding 2009).
So maybe the conclusion should be that Presidents aren't worth a jar of warm spit.
In decent years these days, the economy creates about 130,000 jobs a month, regardless of who's in office.