Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.
There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.
The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.
We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.
Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.
In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost.