{"id":5104,"date":"2011-06-15T02:05:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2011-06-15T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T09:05:56","slug":"the-truth-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/the-truth-about-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"15reich\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15reich\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/15reich.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"320\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I had a nickel for every time I have explained here that the only realistic way to restart the economy if for government to put dollars in consumers pockets, ideally through infrastructure spending, and that the source of that money has to be those that benefited from Republican socialism for the rich, which caused the job loss, I could retire in a manner in which I\u2019d like to become accustomed.&#160; Yesterday I received a video from <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/scribbling-sharpie-illustrates-the-truth-about-our-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn.org<\/a> in which Robert Reich not only does so far better than I have, but also does it in less than three minutes.&#160; It also includes a petition asking Barack Obama not to give in to Republican blackmail.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTzMqm2TwgE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/scribbling-sharpie-illustrates-the-truth-about-our-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Please sign the petition<\/a>.&#160; I did.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had a nickel for every time I have explained here that the only realistic way to restart the economy if for government to put dollars in consumers pockets, ideally through infrastructure spending, and that the source of that money has to be those that benefited from Republican socialism for the rich, which caused <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/the-truth-about-the-economy\/' 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-5104","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\/5104","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=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}