{"id":478439,"date":"2010-03-26T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T01:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34030"},"modified":"2010-03-26T21:59:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T01:59:26","slug":"still-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/478439","title":{"rendered":"Still, Just the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703409804575144033573666238.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5\" >WSJ reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Personal income in 42 states fell in 2009, the Commerce Department said  Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada&#8217;s 4.8% plunge was the steepest, as construction and tourism  industries took a beating. Also hit hard: Wyoming, where incomes fell  3.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Incomes stayed flat in two states and rose in six and the District of  Columbia. West Virginia had the best showing with a 2.1% increase. In  Maine, Kentucky and Hawaii, increased government benefits, such as  unemployment insurance and Social Security, offset drops in earnings and  property values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703409804575144033573666238.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the healthcare reform bill now law, it brings with it a load of new taxes, fees, and higher insurance premiums&#8211;and don&#8217;t forget the individual federal mandate to purchase that insurance. Add all of that to this news of falling personal income, a weak economy, a central bank on steroids, and folks in power who see no reason to even think about cutting back on spending, this is still just the beginning and will surely lead nowhere good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard As WSJ reports: Personal income in 42 states fell in 2009, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Nevada&#8217;s 4.8% plunge was the steepest, as construction and tourism industries took a beating. Also hit hard: Wyoming, where incomes fell 3.9%. Incomes stayed flat in two states and rose in six and the District of [&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-478439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478439","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=478439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}