{"id":4405,"date":"2010-08-06T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2010-08-06T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:18:19","slug":"gop-wrecks-economy-to-win-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/06\/gop-wrecks-economy-to-win-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Wrecks Economy To Win Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article by <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name=\"Author Name\" -->Stephen  Crockett is actually headlined <a title=\"Consortium News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2010\/080310d.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOP Eyes Big Gains Over the Economy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article is another restatement of the economics that makes the Republican plan so bad for the country.\u00a0 The more different ways this can be explained, the more the chance that enough people will finally get it.\u00a0 If enough people finally understand what the Republicans are doing, then the predicted Democratic losses in November will not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the paragraphs of wisdom include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jobs  are not created by just having large pools of investment money  available. There  must be the opportunity to invest in a business that  will have customers who  can buy the goods and services before the  investment money flows into job  creation activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tax  cuts for the wealthy create huge investment money pools but not  jobs. The  United States has plenty of money sitting idle in corporate  and personal  coffers. Corporations have almost a trillion dollars  sitting essentially idle  in corporate accounts at this time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The  former middle class disposable income now controlled by the  economic elite  funds speculation and unsound \u201cbubbles\u201d in the economy  instead of a healthy  economy because sound businesses now lack paying  customers.<br \/>\nDeregulation  helps corporations charge excessive prices. Not  enforcing anti-monopoly laws  permits price gouging. Not capping  interest rates concentrates wealth and  reduces consumer spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And more.\u00a0 Read the whole article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article by Stephen Crockett is actually headlined GOP Eyes Big Gains Over the Economy. The article is another restatement of the economics that makes the Republican plan so bad for the country.\u00a0 The more different ways this can be explained, the more the chance that enough people will finally get it.\u00a0 If enough people [&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-4405","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\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}