{"id":7223,"date":"2011-08-19T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2011-08-19T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:33:10","slug":"scars-left-by-%e2%80%98great-recession%e2%80%99-will-be-hard-to-erase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/08\/19\/scars-left-by-%e2%80%98great-recession%e2%80%99-will-be-hard-to-erase\/","title":{"rendered":"Scars Left by \u2018Great Recession\u2019 Will Be Hard to Erase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Interview with Don Peck\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/scars-left-great-recession-hard-erase-134305124.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Scars Left by \u2018Great Recession\u2019 Will Be Hard to Erase<\/strong><\/a> on Yahooo!\u00a0 Am I repeating myself often enough?\u00a0 See the video below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/techticker\/breakout\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"vid=26355977&#038;browseCarouselUI=hide&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed width=\"576\" height=\"324\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/techticker\/breakout\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"vid=26355977&#038;browseCarouselUI=hide&#038;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>An excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut there is hope, says Peck. There are things that can be done to erase these permanent stains and turn the economy around by putting people back to work: invest in infrastructure that is crumbling anyway, and create a Manhattan type project to create breakthrough innovation that will make the U.S. more globally competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, these two ideas likely fall on deaf ears because it seems the current U.S. Congress is more prone to playing visceral partisan politics vs. working towards the good of the American people\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, not really all of Congress.  Just the Republican minority is bent on ruining the country for political and their own economic gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scars Left by \u2018Great Recession\u2019 Will Be Hard to Erase on Yahooo!\u00a0 Am I repeating myself often enough?\u00a0 See the video below. An excerpt from the article: But there is hope, says Peck. There are things that can be done to erase these permanent stains and turn the economy around by putting people back to [&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-7223","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\/7223","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=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7225,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}