{"id":24466,"date":"2017-07-14T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24466"},"modified":"2017-07-27T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:00:40","slug":"image-of-the-day-obama-recovery-worst-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24466\/image-of-the-day-obama-recovery-worst-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Obama &#8220;Recovery&#8221; Worst On Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On multiple measures, the economic &#8220;recovery&#8221; under Barack Obama was the worst in recorded U.S. history, due to his policies of more regulation, higher taxes and administrative fiat. \u00a0The most consecutive months of unemployment <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15324\/unemployment-rises-to-8-3-i-didnt-cause-that-somebody-else-made-that-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\">above 8%<\/a> (despite <a href=\"http:\/\/otrans.3cdn.net\/45593e8ecbd339d074_l3m6bt1te.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">promising<\/a> that his trillion-dollar spending &#8220;stimulus&#8221; would prevent it from exceeding 8% at all). \u00a0The worst <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/2456-by-the-numbers-obamas-economic-jobs-and-deficit-performance-is-the-worst-on-record\" target=\"_blank\">deficits<\/a> in history, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24265\/image-of-the-day-does-this-dress-make-obamas-deficits-look-fat\/\" target=\"_blank\">most debt<\/a> in history. \u00a0The first time that we <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23750\/yesterdays-gdp-report-confirms-our-commentary-on-obamas-economic-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">never reached<\/a> even 3% economic growth in a year (the post-World War II average was 3.3%). \u00a0And so on.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/explaining-the-decline-in-us-entrepreneurship\/?utm_source=paramount&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=AEITODAY&amp;utm_campaign=071217\" target=\"_blank\">another<\/a>. \u00a0The worst record of new business creation following a recession.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Obama Economic Record\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/071117startups.jpg\" alt=\"Obama Economic Record\" width=\"574\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keeping in mind that most new jobs are created by new businesses, that explains a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On multiple measures, the economic &#8220;recovery&#8221; under Barack Obama was the worst in recorded U.S. history, due to his policies of more regulation, higher taxes and administrative fiat. \u00a0The most consecutive months of unemployment above 8% (despite promising that his trillion-dollar spending &#8220;stimulus&#8221; would prevent it from exceeding 8% at all). \u00a0The worst deficits in [&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":[19,4958,24,4972],"class_list":["post-24466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-image-of-the-day","tag-obama","tag-obama-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466","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=24466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24488,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions\/24488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}