The ‘holy crap!’ statistic from today’s news was that unemployment under Ted Strickland’s Administration has doubled since he took office, from 5.3% in January of 2007 to 10.8% in May of 2009.
For the math disadvantaged, that’s an increase of over 100%.
Does anyone believe things would have ever been this bad had Ted Strickland not been asleep at the wheel?
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