Deregulation, non-enforcement of remaining regulations and taxpayer bailouts to companies that pay their executives large bonuses for bankrupting them and defrauding investors come to mind. Massive taxcuts that left millions of federal and state employeees unemployed (which account for about a third of total unemployment) also come to mind.

Trickle down supply-side economics, what his father called "voodoo economics" caused it, because IT DOES NOT WORK! It has never worked, has failed disastrously every single time it has been attempted. It works so poorly even most fiscally conservative Republicans have abandoned it, many so completely that they abandoned the Republican Party as well because it would not forsake failed policies.

Meanwhile, 29 months of anemic job growth is still better than the NEGATIVE job growth we saw throughout most of Bushs term and for six months after he left office.