Reply #9: I forgot to mention that tens, no, hundreds of thousands of people where hired temporarily in 2010

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For the census. Nobody deserves credit for that. Likewise, the recession is bound to end sooner or later, which by definition means more jobs.

http://www.esa.doc.gov/02182010.pdf

So Clinton doesn't deserve credit for creation jobs and leaving a surplus and Bush isn't responsible for squandering it, adding trillions to the debt and triggering the worst economic crisis in more than seven decades?

He deserves SOME credit. I never said nobody deserves credit for effective, appropriate economic policies. To quote myself with emphasis added:

"No one party ever deserves all of the blame or all of the credit for any large economic trend"

I stand by my comment.