{"id":4576,"date":"2010-08-30T08:51:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2010-08-30T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:51:55","slug":"the-two-stories-of-this-terrible-economy-yet-obama-and-the-dems-wont-tell-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/30\/the-two-stories-of-this-terrible-economy-yet-obama-and-the-dems-wont-tell-theirs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Stories of This Terrible Economy, Yet Obama and the Dems Won&#8217;t Tell Theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich writes on OpEdNews <a title=\"Robert Reich's article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/a\/117725\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Two Stories of This Terrible Economy, Yet Obama and the Dems Won&#8217;t Tell Theirs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not that big business and Wall Street are evil. It&#8217;s that they&#8217;re out to make as much money as possible which is what they&#8217;re set up to do. That&#8217;s why we need an activist government to stimulate the economy, create jobs, and protect the public from their excesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the kind of constructive criticism that is useful.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t call the President names and attribute evil motives to him. It says what he is doing wrong and suggests a way to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>It would be so nice if more of the authors on OpEdNews took a lesson from this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich writes on OpEdNews The Two Stories of This Terrible Economy, Yet Obama and the Dems Won&#8217;t Tell Theirs. It&#8217;s not that big business and Wall Street are evil. It&#8217;s that they&#8217;re out to make as much money as possible which is what they&#8217;re set up to do. That&#8217;s why we need an activist [&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-4576","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\/4576","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=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}