{"id":14580,"date":"2012-07-08T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14580"},"modified":"2012-07-08T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:49:11","slug":"if-the-states-can-do-it-the-federal-government-can-do-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14580","title":{"rendered":"If The States Can Do It, The Federal Government Can Do It Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Hicks at <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katehicks\/2012\/07\/08\/excellent_all_gop_governors_elected_in_2010_reduced_unemployment\">Townhall.com<\/a>\u00a0posted an article today with some interesting statistics&#8211;all\u00a017 states that elected Republican governors in 2010 have reduced their <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Unemployment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unemployment\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are the numbers from some of these states:<\/p>\n<table width=\"413\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"119\" \/>\n<col width=\"162\" \/>\n<col width=\"132\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\" width=\"413\" height=\"20\"><strong>CHANGING UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\"><strong>STATE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>UNEMPLOYMENT RATE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>CHANGE<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Kansas<\/td>\n<td>6.9% to 6.1%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 0.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Maine<\/td>\n<td>8.0% to 7.4%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 0.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Michigan<\/td>\n<td>10.9% to 8.5%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 2.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">New Mexico<\/td>\n<td>7.7% to 6.7%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 1.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Oklahoma<\/td>\n<td>6.2% to 4.8%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 1.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Pennsylvania<\/td>\n<td>8.0% to 7.4%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 0.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Tennessee<\/td>\n<td>9.5% to 7.9%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 1.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Wisconsin<\/td>\n<td>7.7% to 6.8%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 0.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Wyoming<\/td>\n<td>6.3% to 5.2%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 1.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Alabama<\/td>\n<td>9.3% to 7.4%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 1.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Georgia<\/td>\n<td>10.1% to 8.9%<\/td>\n<td>decline of 1.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If this can be done at the\u00a0state level, it can be done at the federal level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=8a6e0b18-4941-4b6f-95be-52c069ef0b1b\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Hicks at Townhall.com\u00a0posted an article today with some interesting statistics&#8211;all\u00a017 states that elected Republican governors in 2010 have reduced their unemployment rates. These are the numbers from some of these states: CHANGING UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS STATE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CHANGE Kansas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3415,297],"class_list":["post-14580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-republican-party-united-states","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14583,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}