{"id":24058,"date":"2016-10-14T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24058"},"modified":"2016-10-14T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:16:41","slug":"image-of-the-day-liberals-need-to-stop-trumpeting-their-economic-performance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24058\/image-of-the-day-liberals-need-to-stop-trumpeting-their-economic-performance-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Liberals Need to Stop Trumpeting Their Economic Performance Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in 2008, when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/web\/empsit\/cps_charts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rate<\/a> stood essentially where it stands this year, the deficit over the preceding seven years was a tiny fraction what it has been over the past seven years, and liberals were acknowledging how great the economy was?<\/p>\n<p>This is hardly exhaustive, but it provides a rough illustration of why Obama, his apologists and the political left skate on thin ice when they attempt to trumpet their economic performance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Economic Performance Record\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/republicbroadcasting.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Image-2.jpg\" alt=\"Economic Performance Record\" width=\"955\" height=\"713\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in 2008, when the unemployment rate stood essentially where it stands this year, the deficit over the preceding seven years was a tiny fraction what it has been over the past seven years, and liberals were acknowledging how great the economy was? This is hardly exhaustive, but it provides a rough illustration of [&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":[59,19,2132,4923,24],"class_list":["post-24058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-labor-participation","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058","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=24058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24060,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058\/revisions\/24060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}