{"id":332715,"date":"2010-02-17T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32704"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:06:38","slug":"stimulus-at-one-year-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332715","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus at one-year mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge<\/p>\n<p>It appears that President Obama and crew are sticking to their story. &#8220;We have rescued this economy from the worst of this crisis&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their claim is that the $862 billion package is an unequivocal success that has created or saved millions of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/02\/17\/obama.stimulus\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course saying, &#8220;it would have been worse without it&#8221; is a clever rhetorical tactic that cannot be proven. It&#8217;s near impossible to prove a negative.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the American people are not as optimistic about the expenditure.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Gateway Pundit&rsquo;s<\/em> Jim Hoft and <em>The Hill&rsquo;s<\/em> Walter Alarkon have found an interesting statistic in a week-old CBS\/NYT poll: &ldquo;just 6 percent of Americans believe that [Obama&#8217;s $787 billion stimulus package]created jobs, even though independent economists estimate that it has saved or created more than 1 million jobs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about the poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/6_believe_stimulus_created_jobs\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+%28Outside+The+Beltway+%7C+OTB%29&amp;utm_content=Twitter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge It appears that President Obama and crew are sticking to their story. &#8220;We have rescued this economy from the worst of this crisis&#8230;&#8221; Their claim is that the $862 billion package is an unequivocal success that has created or saved millions of jobs. Read more here. Of course saying, &#8220;it would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}