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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.
So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost.
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.
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
In all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly eight and a half million jobs that were lost nationwide over 2008 and 2009.
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.