That blue line is not Obama's entire time in office. You need to more to the left, you're leaving out the nearly end of the world that took place.
Well mr O added over 9 trillion to debt so any good the prev presidents did was dissolved. Mr O with help of the Fed put the axles in the mud. Mr T is pulling them out. Most liberals cannot see it...for hating Mr T.
Blue line is from his first month in office till his last. Just like tRump currently. And just like tRump his effect overall is very little with the free money low interest rate Fed punchbowl being passed around. Where's Ron Paul when you need and forget that fake, the real fake kind, Rand Paul?
Trillions of dollars of debt were added during Obama's time on top of the trillions of dollars of debt George W added and Clinton added (even with some balanced budget years) and George Sr and Reagan added and ... and ... and ... And now currently by Mr tRump. LMAO the tax cut,(that was supposed to pay for itself - it didn't) was slapped on the debt too but somehow the so-called fake media lined against tRump never mentions it.
Sure, everyone has added debt, but it was at 10 tril before O and at 20 tril after. Trump is doing the same thing, but what the media can't talk about is the fact that there is no other choice. SS is bankrupt, our country is bankrupt, and our dollar is worthless. The only thing keeping us going is our ability to keep printing money out of thin air and other countries keep accepting it. The economy was directly O's fault, but he did make it worse. Making it more expensive and difficult to do business in this country, does not help business grow.
LOL "O's fault", yet NFP continued to grow and the unemployment rate continued to drop just like currently. Can annnnyone name a major accomplishment of tRump's unraveling of rules or laws Pres Obama put in place (or any prior President for that matter ) that was negatively affecting the economy to any great extent. Not saying there aren't rules/laws having a negative effect. I just haven't heard of any major ones tRump has gotten rid of. He just signed an executive order cancelling out Obama implemented EPA coal rules. A real nothingburger as far as jobs or costs since natty gas fracking (which Obama did NOT stop but encouraged) blew coal out of the cost equation.
The unemployment number doesn't really mean anything. Let's say someone was an engineer making 100K a year. They get laid off. Six months pass, they have no job, they are now no longer unemployed. Or maybe they take a part time job at Burger King, they are also no longer unemployed. What O did to hurt the economy, was to make it more expensive and more difficult for businesses to run. em