The facts speak for themselves, as Americans find their economic fortunes getting worse under Obama.

“The 5.2 percent decrease in bookings was the biggest since January 2009 and followed a revised 2.6 percent increase in July, the Commerce Department said today in Washington…Demand for durable goods dropped 13.2 percent…”

“The drop in factory orders was paced by a 101.8 percent plunge in demand for commercial aircraft, the same as reported last week, and a 3.4 percent drop in computers and electrical equipment, today’s Commerce Department report showed.”

That’s not all, as the economy continues to crumble under Obama.

“Applications for jobless benefits increased 4,000 to 367,000 in the week ended Sept. 29…”

Without significant change at our nation’s Capitol employers face a tidal wave of tax hikes on January 1, and an even bigger crush of regulations and tax hikes.

Read this commentary and weep. Because I wrote it two years ago, almost to the day. I called Obama “the Great Jobs Killer.” It was published in my column in the Las Vegas Review Journal on July 4, 2010. See: http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/barack-obama–the-great-jobs-killer-97758294.html

My commentary was quoted in Time magazine, and widely across the Internet. Yet as you read it again (below), look closely at the words. It could have been written today- after 4 consecutive months of disastrous jobs reports. Nothing has changed. Obama was a highly effective jobs killer back in 2010…just as he still is in 2012. Nothing happening to the economy today should come as a surprise. It was all clear on inauguration day 2009, as we installed a radical progressive in the White House who would spend, tax, and overwhelm the system with debt, stimulus, bailouts, and entitlements, bringing our economy to it’s knees. Perhaps someone should have listened.

None of this is a surprise to fiscal conservatives. We predicted it. We called it like Babe Ruth pointing to right field before hitting a home run to that exact spot. Maybe it’s time American voters listened to the people who got it all right.

Here is the column in it’s entirety from July 4, 2010:

Go here to read the full column.

“This year (in both January and April), only 57.6 percent of the women in the civilian noninstitutional population were in the labor force. That is the lowest rate of labor force participation by American women since April 1993, according to historical data maintained by BLS,” CNS News reports.

“For both males and females combined, the rate of participation in the labor force dropped to 63.6 percent in April—the lowest rate since December 1981.

“Recently, however, women have been leaving the labor force in larger numbers than men.”

This war on working people started under a Republican and got worse under a Democrat.  Libertarians continue to be the only candidates with real, proven plans to create jobs again.

But the real numbers are sobering, and worrisome for millions of Americans.

For one, in eleven of the last twelve months the initial unemployment figure has had to be “revised” to show it was higher than initially reported.  So, in fact, the employment rate may actually have increased in April.

And second, the unemployment rate is calculated as what percentage of the labor force do not have a job and are looking for one.  In April labor force participation plunged to 63.6 percent, the worst it’s been since December 1981.

The reason the unemployment rate fell is because the number of Americans who have given up looking for a job growing.  It’s certainly not because enough jobs are being created.

Employers added 115,000 jobs last month.  It’s the smallest increase in six months.

Even The Washington Post’s reliably liberal Ezra Klein tweeted “Unemployment rate down to 8.1%, but for the wrong reason: people dropping out of labor force.”

If labor force participation were the same as it were in March the unemployment rate would have risen to 8.4 percent.  Were it the same as when Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be over 10 percent.

Republicans gave us this unemployment crisis and Democrats have made it worse.

Isn’t it time we tried policies proven to create jobs?

Cut taxes on investment, cut taxes for working Americans, get rid of regulations that kill jobs including those put into place by politically-connected corporations to kill their competition, hurting workers and consumers in the process.

Only one party is founded on those principles, and is proven to put them into place wherever they have been elected.

Let’s get the economy growing again. Next time, vote Libertarian.