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Old 02-09-2012, 02:59 PM   #8
glatt
 
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The graph is accurate, although without numbers or an explanation, it's not terribly useful. It shows the slope of the curve for unemployment.

The negative numbers show that the economy is nose diving, and the positive numbers show that jobs are no longer being lost, they are being added. It's kind of like an airplane that gets pushed into a dive under Bush, and the stick is being pushed forward so the dive gets worse, and then Obama takes over and the stick is pulled back, but we're still in a dive, and the plane slowly levels out and starts to climb really slowly. But we've lost like 10,000 feet in the dive and are way below where we were and where we want to be.
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