The blue and green lines on this chart from Business Insider show US state and local government employment under Bush and Obama.

As you can see, government employment fell much harder under Obama than it did under Bush.

The red line is private sector employment. Despite the big government socialist stereotype, the private sector is doing better under Obama too.

Finally, the chat shows the performance of the S&P 500 (in orange) during each period.

 

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