{"id":10411,"date":"2011-07-08T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2011-07-08T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T20:12:39","slug":"unemployment-rises-at-what-point-do-obama-and-liberals-get-the-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10411\/unemployment-rises-at-what-point-do-obama-and-liberals-get-the-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rises:  At What Point Do Obama and Liberals Get the Signal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303544604576433541086114816.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\" target=\"_blank\">terrible unemployment report<\/a>, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/jobs-report-is-setback-for-obama-as-reelection-campaign-looms\/2011\/07\/08\/gIQAxT9g3H_story.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics\" target=\"_blank\">mused<\/a>, &#8220;We still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, Mr. President.\u00a0 That&#8217;s precisely what the nation fears.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve already allowed you to go too far and do too much, but you&#8217;re apparently not getting the clue.<\/p>\n<p>For the month of June, unemployment unexpectedly rose to 9.2% and added a negligible 18,000 jobs, far below the 150,000 that economists had expected.\u00a0 That means the <a href=\"http:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/LNS14000000\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rate has risen<\/a> from 7.8% when Obama signed his massive government spending &#8220;stimulus&#8221; to 9.2% over two years later.\u00a0 Keep in mind that his administration <a href=\"http:\/\/wolafen.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/the-job-impact-of-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">promised<\/a> at the time that the &#8220;stimulus&#8221; would cap unemployment at 8% in the fall of 2009, and be down to around 6.5% by now.\u00a0 Instead, it rose all the way to 10.2% and has remained above 8% for a post-war record 29 consecutive months.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring that, Obama and liberal pundits like Ezra Klein appearing on MSNBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036789\/ns\/msnbc_tv-morning_joe\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221;<\/a> claimed that what we need is even more of the same.\u00a0 At what point do they finally get the signal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to this morning&#8217;s terrible unemployment report, President Obama mused, &#8220;We still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do.&#8221; No, Mr. President.\u00a0 That&#8217;s precisely what the nation fears.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve already allowed you to go too far and do too much, but you&#8217;re apparently not getting the clue. For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,27,24,179,18],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-obama","tag-stimulus","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}