{"id":1877,"date":"2009-11-06T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2009-11-06T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:42:05","slug":"obama-receives-another-unemployment-math-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1877\/obama-receives-another-unemployment-math-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Receives Another Unemployment Math Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the Obama Administration promised that, if we only passed his potent &#8220;stimulus&#8221; plan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessandmedia.org\/articles\/2009\/20090603145014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment would top out at 8%<\/a>?\u00a0 In contrast, according to Obama, if the American people foolishly refused his master plan, unemployment might rise as high as 10%?<\/p>\n<p>Well, this morning, the U.S. Department of Labor provided yet another wakeup call and simple math lesson to Mr. Obama.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rate has now risen to 10.2%<\/a>.\u00a0 Worse, Obama&#8217;s ineffective &#8220;stimulus&#8221; has only exacerbated the problem by adding to our unsustainable federal debt and creating a forward-looking business climate that is inhospitable to creation of new employment and enterprises.\u00a0 Something to keep in mind as Obama issues new promise after promise regarding his healthcare, carbon cap-and-tax and other agenda items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the Obama Administration promised that, if we only passed his potent &#8220;stimulus&#8221; plan, unemployment would top out at 8%?\u00a0 In contrast, according to Obama, if the American people foolishly refused his master plan, unemployment might rise as high as 10%? Well, this morning, the U.S. Department of Labor provided yet another wakeup call [&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":[59,19,24,61,18],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-obama","tag-spending","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","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=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}