Glen Melancon was not the source of all that data. Look at the bottom of each graph for the source.

Yeah Tim Geithner is personally cooking the books for the entire treasury department, the CBO and the BLS, but the heritage foundation IS a realiable source? Please.

Actually study the graph on Hoover. It was 1930, after the election and the stock market crash that he called for fiscal austerity. Look what it did to the economy. Look what stimulus spending did.

And why is it important to start those first graphs at an earlier date? The entire point of the graphs is to show what the economy was like the day Obama took office and what it is like now. Right? How is the economy in 2001-2007 relevant to the economy he faced when he took office Jan 2009?

The only thing I can think of is you simply don't want to address the point (Obama's term) so you try to reframe it into how great things were 2001-07.