{"id":7553,"date":"2011-09-10T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T13:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2011-09-10T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T13:04:40","slug":"two-cheers-and-one-jeer-for-the-american-jobs-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/10\/two-cheers-and-one-jeer-for-the-american-jobs-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cheers And One Jeer for The American Jobs Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich gives us his opinion of the President&#8217;s initiative in his article <a title=\"Robert Reich article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/two-cheers-and-one-jeer-american-jobs-act-1315582158#\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Two Cheers And One Jeer for The American Jobs Act<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two cheers for the President and his America\u2019s Jobs Act. Cheer Number One: In presenting it to a joint session of Congress, he sounded as passionate and determined as he\u2019s ever sounded.<\/p>\n<p>Second cheer: He laid out the problem correctly and effectively. He explained why jobs and growth must be the nation\u2019s first priority now \u2014 not the federal deficit. The economy is in crisis. People are hurting. So government must act, and act quickly. It\u2019s irresponsible at a time like this to suggest that government should simply close down.<\/p>\n<p>But a jeer because the jobs plan he presented isn\u2019t nearly large enough or bold enough to make a major dent in unemployment, or to restart the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It reminds me of how we used to taunt the food servers in the mess hall in the Army.\u00a0 They had the rank of Specialist.\u00a0 We\u00a0 used to praise them with remarks such as &#8220;Good water, Specialist&#8221;, or &#8220;Good bread, Specialist.&#8221;\u00a0 We used anything that we were pretty sure they had bought instead of cooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich gives us his opinion of the President&#8217;s initiative in his article Two Cheers And One Jeer for The American Jobs Act. Two cheers for the President and his America\u2019s Jobs Act. Cheer Number One: In presenting it to a joint session of Congress, he sounded as passionate and determined as he\u2019s ever sounded. [&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":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","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=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}