{"id":5476,"date":"2010-12-10T20:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2010-12-10T20:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T01:57:59","slug":"white-house-white-board-tax-cuts-unemployment-insurance-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/12\/10\/white-house-white-board-tax-cuts-unemployment-insurance-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"White House White Board: Tax Cuts, Unemployment Insurance &#038; Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this YouTube video, <a title=\"YouTube propaganda video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iOH6t6mxuJM&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>White House White Board: Tax Cuts, Unemployment Insurance &amp; Jobs<\/strong><\/a>, &#8220;&#8230;Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses [makes a sad attempt at justifying] the President&#8217;s compromise framework on tax cuts, unemployment insurance &amp; job creation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I responded with this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You left out the Republican accomplishment of defunding Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>You left out the Republican accomplishment of making it harder to cut the deficit except on the backs of the people who can least afford it.<\/p>\n<p>You left out the the Republican accomplishment of making any attempt at economic stimulus be as ineffective as possible.<\/p>\n<p>You left out the Republican accomplishment of rolling the President on a fight they couldn&#8217;t win. Their electoral chances were toast if they blocked the unemployment insurance extension.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Goolsbee as an adviser to the President came up with this justification on his own, then he is not serving the President or the country very well. I have heard that the influence of Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago School of Economics is waning, but I think I see some of the taint of Friedman in what Goolsbee is saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this YouTube video, White House White Board: Tax Cuts, Unemployment Insurance &amp; Jobs, &#8220;&#8230;Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses [makes a sad attempt at justifying] the President&#8217;s compromise framework on tax cuts, unemployment insurance &amp; job creation.&#8221; I responded with this comment: You left out the Republican accomplishment of defunding [&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-5476","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\/5476","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=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}