{"id":820,"date":"2009-09-24T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2009-09-24T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:22:41","slug":"only-thing-stimulated-by-economic-recovery-package-has-been-the-size-and-scope-of-the-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/820\/only-thing-stimulated-by-economic-recovery-package-has-been-the-size-and-scope-of-the-federal-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Thing Stimulated By &#8220;Economic Recovery Package&#8221; Has Been the Federal Gov&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2009-09-23-stimfed_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The $787 billion economic recovery package\u00a0&#8230; is stimulating growth in the federal government as agencies hire thousands of workers and spend millions of dollars to oversee and implement the package, according to government records and spokesmen. &#8230; That&#8217;s helped fuel the continued growth of the federal government, which increased by more than 25,000 employees, or 1.3%, since December 2008&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have no fear:\u00a0 John Berry, head of the federal government&#8217;s Office of Personnel Management, says the increase is small and temporary.\u00a0 Believe that, then there&#8217;s a bridge in Brooklyn for sale with your name written all over it.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, the Labor Department this morning reported that the number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment\u00a0benefits this week was 530,000.\u00a0 While the number was less than economists expected, that brought the total number of jobs lost since December, 2008 to nearly 4 million,\u00a0most coming from the private sector.\u00a0\u00a0This, despite Congress&#8217; passage of the $787 billion taxpayer-funded stimulus bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From USA Today: The $787 billion economic recovery package\u00a0&#8230; is stimulating growth in the federal government as agencies hire thousands of workers and spend millions of dollars to oversee and implement the package, according to government records and spokesmen. &#8230; That&#8217;s helped fuel the continued growth of the federal government, which increased by more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,61,179],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-jobs","tag-spending","tag-stimulus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}