I have never figured out how to put graphs into a Diary so in order to see the graph you need to see to understand the point I am trying to make by the title of this Diary you will have to go to the following link
http://joan-reports.dailykos.com/
which is to a Diary posted earlier today by Joan Reports
What this graph shows is that between January of 2008 and August of 2008 the US economy lost 1.4 million jobs and they lost them in a manner that was clearly escalating each month.
Despite this the Republican President made no effort to have some kind of economic aid package pushed through congress to try and reverse the job decline.
Then September 15th rolled along and the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy occurred and within the space of the next 18 days the administration managed to push a 700 Billion dollar bill through the Congress to aid the Banksters ( TARP became Law on October 3, 2008 a month before Obama won the Election and 31/2 months before he took office, even though 75% of mainstream media is still trying to tell the Public that TARP was somehow a creation of the Obama Presidency ).
In the same September month that Lehman failed and this failure was met with very aggressive action by the Republican Administration to help the Banksters, another 450,000 Americans lost their jobs and yet the administration again did nothing to address this still growing problem.
And that was true again in October when 550,000 jobs were lost and again in November when 750,000 more were lost.
In fact no effort whatever was made to aid the economy until immediately after Obama took office ( January 20, 2009 ).
And magically four months after that much maligned Stimulus Bill was passed ( Feb 18, 2009 ), the recession offically came to an end in June of that year.
It really doesn't take a nuclear physicist to speculate that if perhaps an Economic Stimulus Bill had been proposed back in September of 2009, while the Republicans were busy saving their Bankster Buddies, that the recovery we are now seeing would have started much sooner and it would not have had to start from the very deep hole that it did.
And this is the Party that wants the American People to put it back in power???
This is just one more of the untold stories that needs to be discussed over and over again before November.