Today's unemployment numbers are devastating. With no private sector jobs created in February, and only 21,000 jobs created overall, the jobs report was much weaker than economists projected and Americans deserve. President Bush has lost manufacturing jobs every single month of his Presidency. Today, 8.2 million Americans are unemployed and 3 million private sector jobs have been lost since the beginning of the Bush Administration.

3,000 manufacturing jobs lost last month alone, with manufacturing employment at a 53-year low. The bad Bush economy has devastated the good-paying manufacturing sector, with 2.8 million manufacturing jobs lost since the beginning of the Bush Administration. President Bush has lost manufacturing jobs during every month of his presidency.

Since the beginning of the Bush Administration, 3 million private-sector jobs have been lost. The unemployment rate remains stagnant at 5.6 percent as about 392,000 people gave up on the job search in February. In order for the Bush Administration to create one new private sector job by the end of the President's first term, the economy would have to create the unlikely number of 269,000 private-sector jobs per month. If the economy continues to perform at February's rate, it would take nine years to recover all the jobs lost under President Bush and would give him the worst job creation record since the Great Depression.

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