Of course, I want you to read the campaign blog, so I will have to keep the "money shot" over there. But here's the idea.
Creating jobs is easy - stimulus works wonders. The problem is that this also creates inflation. Bush II has so lowered our expectations, that the press is acting as if we are at 2.4% unemployment and that more jobs are impossible to create. We know better, we saw what an economy with new technologies to exploit could be like, we saw what real growth looks like under Clinton. That went away, and people are acting like it will never come back.
Let's remember that Hoover's Depression was in the middle of a world wide Depression - everyone was suffering hard, and there was the rise of Fascism and Totalitarianism to create even more strangling economic problems. Hoover inherited a bomb from Coolidge, and could not get it together.
Bush, on the other hand, inherited merely the popping of a speculative bubble, and his wrong headed policies have squandered more or less seven years of economic gains.
So to this end I compiled the jobs versus inflation report card for Post War Presidents - Truman from 1947 onward to Bush II at the Newberry For Congress Blog.
Remember - if you like the work we are doing taking the fight to the top, drop some coin in the box.