{"id":34696,"date":"2011-07-07T11:56:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34696"},"modified":"2011-07-07T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:56:34","slug":"obama-has-produced-the-worst-economic-recovery-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34696","title":{"rendered":"Obama Has Produced The Worst Economic Recovery Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article\/577501\/201107061854\/Romneys-Right-It-Is-Worse-Now.htm\">From IBD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 million fewer private-sector jobs now than when Obama was sworn in, and the unemployment rate is 1.5 percentage points higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There are now more long-term unemployed than at any time since the government started keeping records.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The U.S. dollar is more than 12% weaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The number of Americans on food stamps has climbed 37%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Misery Index (unemployment plus inflation) is up 62%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 And the national debt is about 40% higher than it was in January 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, reporters who bother to look will discover that Obama has managed to produce the worst recovery on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IBD: There are 2 million fewer private-sector jobs now than when Obama was sworn in, and the unemployment rate is 1.5 percentage points higher. \u2022 There are now more long-term unemployed than at any time since the government started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34696\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,162],"tags":[27065,9956,27063,27064,23533],"class_list":["post-34696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economics","tag-economic-recovery","tag-food-stamps","tag-misery-index","tag-national-debt","tag-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}