{"id":9968,"date":"2011-06-03T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:17:34","slug":"ditching-obama%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cbumpy%e2%80%9d-road-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9968\/ditching-obama%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cbumpy%e2%80%9d-road-to-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching Obama\u2019s \u201cBumpy\u201d Road to Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever had the misfortune of drifting off the highway, chances are you\u2019ve been instantly reminded by the deep grooves on the other side of the white line.\u00a0 When your car crosses over them a deep, sickening rattle shakes your vehicle.\u00a0 It\u2019s a warning that you\u2019re about to leave the road and enter a crash zone.<\/p>\n<p>Most people have to fight to urge to overcorrect.\u00a0 Austan Goolsbee, President Barack Obama\u2019s chief economist, would probably reclassify the loud death tones as just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/jun\/3\/white-house-poor-jobs-numbers-bumps-road-recovery\/ \" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbumps along the road\u201d<\/a> and keep driving.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s effectively what Goolsbee is doing by claiming that the nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/jun\/3\/white-house-poor-jobs-numbers-bumps-road-recovery\/ \" target=\"_blank\">80 percent drop<\/a> in jobs created from April to May are just 200,000 or so \u201cbumps\u201d in the White House\u2019s empirically indefensible road to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Like an absent-minded professor ignoring the warning signs of an impending car wreck, Goolsbee and Co. are driving the American economy off the road and into a ditch.\u00a0 Unemployment is anchored at 9.1 percent.\u00a0 The stock market is falling with every new round of bad economic news.\u00a0 Rating agencies are downgrading America\u2019s economic outlook because of its lack of fiscal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways to stop bumping over the warning grades.\u00a0 Either get back on the highway or leave the pavement entirely.\u00a0 By sticking to his present course, President Obama is steering the nation\u2019s economy into a serious wreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever had the misfortune of drifting off the highway, chances are you\u2019ve been instantly reminded by the deep grooves on the other side of the white line.\u00a0 When your car crosses over them a deep, sickening rattle shakes your vehicle.\u00a0 It\u2019s a warning that you\u2019re about to leave the road and enter a [&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":[2753,143,19,1275,27,18],"class_list":["post-9968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-austan-goolsbee","tag-barack-obama","tag-economy","tag-fiscal-responsibility","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968","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=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}