{"id":12662,"date":"2012-10-17T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2019-08-08T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T01:43:38","slug":"scott-browns-unemployment-solution-vote-against-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/10\/17\/scott-browns-unemployment-solution-vote-against-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown&#8217;s Unemployment Solution &#8211; Vote Against Jobs Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the country is several trillion dollars behind in the upkeep of its infrastructure, costs are low, business in the construction industry is slow, interest rates are at historic lows, why isn&#8217;t now the best time of all to invest in the work we will need to do sometime in the future anyway?  Should we wait until business is very busy and the costs will be higher and delays longer?  Can anyone explain the logic to me?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qenbulMeT1I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Is the Republican strategy to do the work when it will cost the most and compete with private sector work that needs to be done?  Are Republicans in favor of inflation and bubbles?  It would seem so by the timing they choose to do things like infrastructure investing and deficit financing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the country is several trillion dollars behind in the upkeep of its infrastructure, costs are low, business in the construction industry is slow, interest rates are at historic lows, why isn&#8217;t now the best time of all to invest in the work we will need to do sometime in the future anyway? Should we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27889,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions\/27889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}