Interesting 240, maybe you send that chart to the 20 people who just got laid off from my company last week. I'm sure that will make them feel much better 
I don't blame the economy crash of Sept 2008 on bush. I blame it on greedy people who ran up oil prices.
This hurt many sectors, and this hurt peaked in Jan 2009. There is a turnaround in motion now, and while it sucks, the bleeding is lessening. Once it hits zero, the trend will continue and we'll see job growth.
Nobody here expected things to turn around overnight. 700,000 jobs lost in january. nobody thought it'd be zero jobs lost in Feb, did they?

My point is that the DOW is steady, the bleeding is stopping when it comes to unemployment, and yes, we may hit 11%, but then positive growth will return when it hits that zero mark and starts going positive.