{"id":24664,"date":"2018-01-12T08:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24664"},"modified":"2018-01-12T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:17:11","slug":"image-of-the-day-obama-apologists-claim-credit-for-roaring-trump-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24664\/image-of-the-day-obama-apologists-claim-credit-for-roaring-trump-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Obama Apologists Seek Credit for Roaring Trump Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since World War II, the U.S. economy has averaged <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/3894-shock-new-york-times-begins-2018-admitting-trump-economic-bump\" target=\"_blank\">3.3% growth per year<\/a>.\u00a0 Under Barack Obama, we never even hit 3%, instead averaging below 2%.\u00a0 His apologists rationalized that &#8220;secular stagnation&#8221; had made 3% an unattainable goal, but both quarters under President Trump have already averaged over 3%.\u00a0 So like clockwork, leftists attempt to credit Obama for something they claimed was no longer possible:<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Obama Trumped\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/26731482_1783092398368436_4407824696955405650_n.jpg?oh=a3a7899cca290fd4e1876daf3f8cb181&amp;oe=5AB4BCD9\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since World War II, the U.S. economy has averaged 3.3% growth per year.\u00a0 Under Barack Obama, we never even hit 3%, instead averaging below 2%.\u00a0 His apologists rationalized that &#8220;secular stagnation&#8221; had made 3% an unattainable goal, but both quarters under President Trump have already averaged over 3%.\u00a0 So like clockwork, leftists attempt to credit [&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":[19,24,3227],"class_list":["post-24664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-obama","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664","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=24664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24666,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions\/24666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}