For most of Obama’s eight years, the employment numbers were dismal and stagnant. Despite all the stimulus spending and alleged “shovel ready jobs” Unemployment was way up, growth was almost impossibly slow, and no one within the President’s administration seemed to have any genuine interest in making things better.
We were told, on multiple occasions, that Americans had to accept this condition as “the new normal.” Manufacturing jobs were never coming back, and it would take years of labor-training to turn this mess around – if it could be turned around at all.