{"id":3151,"date":"2010-10-20T02:13:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2010-10-20T02:13:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:13:17","slug":"economics-101-for-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/economics-101-for-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics 101 for Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I know.&#160; The mere mention of economics is sufficient to prompt most voters to roll their eyes and run for the exits.&#160; It\u2019s pretty dry stuff.&#160; However, Obama\u2019s new Head of the Council of Economic Advisors&#160; actually makes it palatable and simple enough for Teabaggers and Regressives (the left wing\u2019s equivalent of Teabaggers) to understand, if only they were open to do so.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"Wealth 2004\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Wealth 2004\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Wealth2004.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"290\" \/> Even by this city\u2019s not-so-glamorous standards, Austan D. Goolsbee would seem to be an unlikely candidate for Web video star. <\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Goolsbee, the earnest young economist and occasional stand-up comic who was named last month to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has gamely stepped into the spotlight. <\/p>\n<p>Armed with a felt-tip marker and a white board, Mr. Goolsbee is the earnest pitchman in a series of Web videos the White House is using to convey the president\u2019s message on economic policy in plainspoken terms. <\/p>\n<p>The videos, which have a made-at-home quality, have been the subject of some Internet buzz, especially after <strong>the first one \u2014 about the debate over extending the Bush-era tax cuts<\/strong> \u2014 was highlighted last week on \u201cThe Colbert Report\u201d on Comedy Central. <\/p>\n<p>In the second video, a four-minute segment posted on the White House blog on Tuesday, Mr. Goolsbee stands before a hand-made bar graph showing <strong>private sector job losses and gains since September 2007<\/strong>. He uses the V-shaped chart to point out that the economic free fall has been turned into a recovery, even if the results are still unsatisfying\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/20\/business\/economy\/20comic.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the first video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ma5np8PcaY8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" type=\"text\/html\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And here is the second:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hVFSQzGiEk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" type=\"text\/html\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The first makes it clear just who it is that Republicans represent.&#160; Despite their lies about reducing the deficit, They want to increase it to provide more welfare for the rich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The second proves that, despite Republican lies to the contrary, Democratic achievements toward economic recovery, in the face of unprecedented Republican attempts to sabotage our economy for political gain, have been nothing short of remarkable.&#160; More is needed, but the only way to get more is to put Democrats in office.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans govern only for the benefit of criminal corporations and the richest 1%.&#160; That\u2019s why both are spending untold secret $millions to put them in office, and if Democrats were no different, as Regressives claim, big money would consider their secret money campaign unnecessary.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know.&#160; The mere mention of economics is sufficient to prompt most voters to roll their eyes and run for the exits.&#160; It\u2019s pretty dry stuff.&#160; However, Obama\u2019s new Head of the Council of Economic Advisors&#160; actually makes it palatable and simple enough for Teabaggers and Regressives (the left wing\u2019s equivalent of Teabaggers) to understand, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/economics-101-for-voters\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}