What's truly sad is that little boys like you think this is good times simply because your messiah is in power. This type of data, especially given the massive amount of gov't deficit spending, used to be really disappointing. We had a better jobs economy and more people working 29 fricken years ago, when the economy was about half this size. I guess I should not expect a little leftist to understand, or even care really, just know that your propaganda is seen for what it is. Go ahead fool yourself if you want but you are wasting time if you think a functioning adults agree with you. http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/04/news/economy/obama-reagan-recovery/index.htm
reagan inherited stagflation and a nasty recession induced to stop inflation, but the point is little boy, that this is not in any sense a good recovery. There is no reason to cheer, if you are a rational adult.
Starting at the bottom should be a huge advantage in terms of numbers, but since the labor market was also smaller, then the rate of loss should be smaller. When properly scaled and normalized, this is the worst post world war II recovery. All the numbers show it, and this is despite the massive stimulus. Only an idiot would cheer that, so put on your pointy hat little boy.