Obama the socialist

[ArtM72]

Facts don't matter, but that doesn't keep them from being interesting. Thanks for the post.

To be fair, most of the job retrenchment was at the state and local level, which has little to do with Obama (although at least employment wise, there hasn't been the big build-out of the state, not even at the Federal level),

Good point(s).  The state and local job losses occurred as a result in huge revenue losses due to the recession which included, in part, loss of federal program monies but mostly such things as losses in sales tax revenues, income tax revenues, increased social welfare costs (e.g. unemployment comp), the need to balance local budgets and a general unwillingness to return to previous staffing levels.

A good non-partisan view would be that this recovery, albeit slow, is a reflection of the resiliency of the US economy (so long as the Fed's monetary policies gets an all-important nod).