{"id":15982,"date":"2009-12-08T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15982"},"modified":"2009-12-08T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T22:33:21","slug":"the-defintion-of-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15982","title":{"rendered":"The definition of insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, while his popularity falls because unemployment is rising (against his promises), manufacturing continues to decrease,  the President decides that he must be doing something right so he proposes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091208\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_obama_jobs\">more of the same<\/a> unrestrained government spending;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to &#8220;spend our way out of this recession&#8221; until more Americans are back at work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Spend our way out of a recession&#8221;. That&#8217;s like killing off a few million people to lower the rate of suicide. <\/p>\n<p>OK, he inherited a bad economy &#8211; just like George Bush inherited a bad economy &#8211; but he hasn&#8217;t done anything to fix it except drive us deeper in debt and our currency (and ability to borrow) is now in danger because we&#8217;re about to lose our AAA bond rating. SO let&#8217;s spend some more.<\/p>\n<p>Voters should remember this line from today&#8217;s speech when they go the polls next year &#8220;And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, while his popularity falls because unemployment is rising (against his promises), manufacturing continues to decrease, the President decides that he must be doing something right so he proposes more of the same unrestrained government spending; President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to &#8220;spend our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-49M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}