First, When Obama took office we were losing jobs at a crazy rate.
August 2008: 84,000 - Unemployment Rate 6.2%
September 2008: 159,000
October 2008: 240,000
November 2008: 533,000
December 2008: 524,000
January 2009: 598,000
February 2009: 651,000
March 2009: 663,000
April 2009: 539,000
May 2009: 345,000
June 2009: 467,000
July 2009: 247,000
August 2009: 216,000
September 2009: 263,000
October 2009: 190,000
November 2009: 11,000
December 2009: 85,000 - Unemployment rate 10%
Total Job Loss during the period above was 5,815,000 jobs lost. From Dec 2007 to Dec 2009 there were a total of 8,467,000 jobs lost. I am pointing this out for perspective.
As you can see, an awful lot of jobs were lost from Aug 2008 to Dec 2009. At this point, the stimulus had started to pay for projects and is continuing to pay for projects... estimates are that this will continue through 2011. The current unemployment rate is 9.1% and job losses have fallen dramatically from the numbers we saw in 2008-2009. I think it is reasonable to say that the job losses incurred during the period above cannot be attributed to anything that Barack Obama did... those job losses started before he took office and he did not create the situation that caused them.
The point of the stimulus was to stop the accelerating rate of job loss. It is clear, by the numbers, that the stimulus did exactly that. The unemployment rate has stabilized and improved slightly since Dec 2009.
Since July 2009, the Private Sector has added a total of 923,000 jobs (above job losses). However, the Public Sector has lost 378,000 jobs (Firefighters, Policemen, Teachers, etc).
You can see where I got my data here: http://data.bls.gov/...
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