{"id":6935,"date":"2010-09-07T16:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2010-09-07T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T21:18:50","slug":"obama-what-this-economy-needs-is-more-pavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6935\/obama-what-this-economy-needs-is-more-pavement\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama:  What This Economy Needs Is&#8230; More Pavement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So President Obama brought us a crippling $814 billion &#8220;stimulus,&#8221; and now his promised &#8220;Summer of Recovery&#8221; has come and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6872\/unemployment-rises-again-to-9-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, he nevertheless <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703713504575475400690920676.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0\" target=\"_blank\">instructs<\/a> us that what America needs is another $50 billion, or 1\/16th the original stimulus amount, in new highway, airport runway and rail construction.\u00a0 Obama proclaims that &#8220;this will not only create jobs now, but will make our economy run better over the long haul.&#8221;\u00a0 So let us get this straight.\u00a0 Obama turned the $450 billion deficit that he inherited into consecutive $1.4 trillion and $1.3 trillion deficits for his first two years in office, commenced a regulatory onslaught against the private sector, threatened growth-killing regulations like &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; and union <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6476\/if-this-is-how-union-staff-treat-one-other-imagine-card-check-thuggery\/\" target=\"_blank\">card-check<\/a>, demonized the business community that creates jobs, signed stifling new burdens like <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6680\/white-house-allies-abandon-claim-obamacare-will-reduce-deficitcosts\/\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaCare<\/a> into law and appears ready to oversee the largest <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6430\/theyre-not-the-bush-tax-cuts-theyre-the-obama-tax-hikes\/\" target=\"_blank\">tax increase<\/a> in history this January 1.<\/p>\n<p>But according to him, the basis of our economic malaise is&#8230;\u00a0 lack of pavement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So President Obama brought us a crippling $814 billion &#8220;stimulus,&#8221; and now his promised &#8220;Summer of Recovery&#8221; has come and passed. Undeterred, he nevertheless instructs us that what America needs is another $50 billion, or 1\/16th the original stimulus amount, in new highway, airport runway and rail construction.\u00a0 Obama proclaims that &#8220;this will not only [&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":[59,19,102,148,24,1614,61,179,71,28,18],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-free-market","tag-net-neutrality","tag-obama","tag-obamanomics","tag-spending","tag-stimulus","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","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=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6947,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}