{"id":25971,"date":"2022-01-10T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2022-01-25T18:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T23:21:58","slug":"image-of-the-day-biden-pelosi-and-schumer-faceplanted-on-jobs-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25971\/image-of-the-day-biden-pelosi-and-schumer-faceplanted-on-jobs-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Biden, Pelosi and Schumer Faceplanted On Jobs in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/09\/bidens-sorry-bid-to-spin-decembers-weak-jobs-report\/\">unsettling jobs report<\/a> from the Labor Department, we can now judge the performance and promises of Joe Biden and the Pelosi\/Schumer Congress against actual reality.\u00a0 They promised 10.3 million jobs would be created in 2021 if their massive spending and regulation blowout passed, versus 6.3 million jobs if their agenda wasn&#8217;t passed.\u00a0 So how did it turn out?\u00a0 Their agenda was passed, but only 6.1 million jobs were created as the U.S. economy slowed and struggled to recover from the Covid dip, as AEI&#8217;s Matt Weidinger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/poverty-studies\/december-jobs-report-confirms-democrats-1-9-trillion-american-rescue-plan-didnt-produce-a-single-promised-job-in-2021\/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGB4p73Sf6Amv-d7lIxNqNUI5uPmOx9H-jeOtWhHsEQLkovg0gQWv0-lhmiuxr1j9NkAklMLnXM76_ErwyxfZaMxcRabNImo1u1Q1kGy5X4zEI\">highlights<\/a>.\u00a0 They apparently made things worse, not better, illustrating the sardonic adage, &#8220;Don&#8217;t just do something &#8211; stand there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Weidinger-1-7-chart.jpg?x91208\" alt=\"Biden Jobs Performance: Worse Than Doing Nothing\" width=\"539\" height=\"284\" \/> Biden Jobs Performance: Worse Than Doing Nothing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of Friday&#8217;s unsettling jobs report from the Labor Department, we can now judge the performance and promises of Joe Biden and the Pelosi\/Schumer Congress against actual reality.\u00a0 They promised 10.3 million jobs would be created in 2021 if their massive spending and regulation blowout passed, versus 6.3 million jobs if their agenda [&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":[860,5148,19,2132,27,1072,18],"class_list":["post-25971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-biden","tag-biden-bust","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-labor-department","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971","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=25971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25981,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions\/25981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}