{"id":9696,"date":"2011-05-14T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2011-05-14T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T21:40:39","slug":"gingrich-obama-most-successful-food-stamp-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9696\/gingrich-obama-most-successful-food-stamp-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich: &#8220;Obama Most Successful Food Stamp President&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA) will almost always give the 2012 campaign cycle its most colorful one-liners. \u00a0Along with saying that the 2012 contest is the most important election since Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s in 1860, Gingrich said in a speech to Georgia Republicans that Barack Obama is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/05\/14\/newt-gingrich-in-georgia-_n_861977.html\" target=\"_blank\">the most successful food stamp president in modern American history<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside who would be Obama&#8217;s competition in the pre-modern American era, Gingrich said that Obama&#8217;s economic policies have thrown more people onto the government dole as jobs have dried up. \u00a0To Gingrich, cutting corporate tax rates from 35% to 12.5% would drop the compliance cost for businesses, giving them an incentive to redirect money from loophole-loving lawyers to frontline job creation. \u00a0Believing that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/gingrich-promises-to-slash-taxes-calls-obama-food-stamp-president\/2011\/05\/13\/AF9Q602G_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The most important social welfare program in America is a job<\/a>,&#8221; Gingrich said, &#8220;I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the nationwide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/unemployment-rate\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rate holding steady at 9%<\/a>, Gingrich&#8217;s jobs mantra could catch on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA) will almost always give the 2012 campaign cycle its most colorful one-liners. \u00a0Along with saying that the 2012 contest is the most important election since Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s in 1860, Gingrich said in a speech to Georgia Republicans that Barack Obama is &#8220;the most successful food stamp president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,143,2688,27,869],"class_list":["post-9696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-food-stamp","tag-jobs","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9699,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696\/revisions\/9699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}