{"id":5780,"date":"2009-10-30T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5780"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:07:11","slug":"a-%e2%80%9cmade-up-metric-if-there-ever-was-one-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5780","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cmade-up metric if there ever was one.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in other words, (again) &#8220;You Lie!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is about to start singing the praises of the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">accelerated socialist government expansion<\/span> stimulus program citing the &#8220;saving&#8221; or &#8220;creation&#8221; of 1 million US jobs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessandmedia.org\/articles\/2009\/20091030121011.aspx\">The network news media<\/a> have  let the administration get away with using such a fictional metric for months  now. <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Basically it is a number pulled <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">out of their butts<\/span> via extrapolation, as if all the slated stimulus &#8220;dollars&#8221; had already been spent.<\/p>\n<p>More reliable sources have pegged the jobs impact of the stimulus thus far at between zero and 30,000 jobs saved or created.<\/p>\n<p>Predictions for 2010, widely calling for another tough year for unemployment throughout, have left the Obama Administration preemptively scrambling to find justification for their already lengthy record of failed policies.<\/p>\n<p>Their plan is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Smile, deflect and lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in other words, (again) &#8220;You Lie!&#8221;. The White House is about to start singing the praises of the accelerated socialist government expansion stimulus program citing the &#8220;saving&#8221; or &#8220;creation&#8221; of 1 million US jobs. The network news media have let the administration get away with using such a fictional metric for months now. Basically it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5780"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}