{"id":7671,"date":"2010-11-09T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2010-11-09T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:58:52","slug":"from-reagans-morning-in-america-to-obamas-i-do-get-discouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7671\/from-reagans-morning-in-america-to-obamas-i-do-get-discouraged\/","title":{"rendered":"From &#8220;Morning In America&#8221; to Obama&#8217;s &#8220;I Do Get Discouraged&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have illustrated the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7636\/latest-stimulus-report-card-unemployment-remains-9-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">dramatic difference<\/a> between the pro-growth Reagan Recovery and the ongoing Obama Malaise, which a side-by-side comparison of economic data makes clear.\u00a0 In addition to the lopsided data differential, the uninspiring and self-pitying rhetoric to which Obama treats us provides another sad contrast.\u00a0 Consider the following exchange from Obama&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.org\/biasalert\/2010\/20101108023542.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>STEVE KROFT: Do you get discouraged? Are you discouraged now?<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: I  do get discouraged. I mean, there are times where I thought the economy  would&#8217;ve gotten better by now. One of the things I think you understand  as president is, you&#8217;re held responsible for everything. But you don&#8217;t  always have control of everything, especially an economy this big. There  are limited tools to encourage the kind of job growth that we need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Such &#8220;woe is me&#8221; dejection can be self-fulfilling (see, e.g., Jimmy Carter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/geoffrey-dickens\/2009\/07\/15\/matthews-commemorates-prophet-jimmy-carters-malaise-speech\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Malaise Speech&#8221;<\/a>), and would have been unimaginable coming from Reagan, who faced even higher unemployment rates, interest rates and inflation than Obama.\u00a0 But here&#8217;s a tip, Mr. President:\u00a0 nobody wants or expects you to &#8220;have control of everything.&#8221;\u00a0 You do, and that is the problem.\u00a0 As shown by your more optimistic predecessors, getting yourself out of the way would be the best first step toward &#8220;the kind of job growth that we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have illustrated the dramatic difference between the pro-growth Reagan Recovery and the ongoing Obama Malaise, which a side-by-side comparison of economic data makes clear.\u00a0 In addition to the lopsided data differential, the uninspiring and self-pitying rhetoric to which Obama treats us provides another sad contrast.\u00a0 Consider the following exchange from Obama&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview [&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":[630,67,2043,2041,2042,2044,24,1704],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-60-minutes","tag-bush","tag-carter","tag-i-do-get-discouraged","tag-malaise","tag-morning-in-america","tag-obama","tag-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","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=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}