{"id":18163,"date":"2013-03-27T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18163"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:16:08","slug":"a-disturbing-report-on-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18163","title":{"rendered":"A Disturbing Report On The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/cbo-america-will-never-see-full-employment-under-obama\">CNS News<\/a> posted a story yesterday about the fate of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> economy under <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama<\/a>. The article cites a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Congressional Budget Office\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Congressional Budget Office<\/a> (CBO) report projecting that America will never see <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Full employment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Full_employment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">full employment<\/a> under President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The natural unemployment rate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/cbofiles\/attachments\/glossary.pdf\">according to CBO<\/a>, is the \u201crate of unemployment arising from all sources except fluctuations in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Aggregate demand\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aggregate_demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">aggregate demand<\/a>. Those sources include <i>frictional unemployment, <\/i>which is associated with normal turnover of jobs, and <i><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Structural unemployment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Structural_unemployment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">structural unemployment<\/a>, <\/i>which includes unemployment caused by mismatches between the skills of available workers and the skills necessary to fill vacant positions and unemployment caused when wages exceed their <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Market clearing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Market_clearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">market-clearing<\/a> levels because of institutional factors, such as legal minimum wages, the presence of unions, social conventions, or wage-setting practices by employers that are intended to increase workers\u2019 morale and effort.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CBO Director <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Douglas W. Elmendorf\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_W._Elmendorf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Doug Elmendorf<\/a> has stated, \u201cwe think it will take four more years to get back close to full employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I believe that America will recover from this recession. I also believe that the recovery would be much faster if businesses were not totally over-regulated by the government. A glaring example of this is the fact that the energy revolution that is taking place in America is taking place on private land&#8211;the government has blocked fracking on government land. If the government land were opened up and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Keystone Pipeline\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keystone_Pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">the Keystone pipeline<\/a> put in place, the economy would recover very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>We can recover, but we need to let private citizens have more power and the government have less. That won&#8217;t happen as long as the current Washington politicians are in power.<\/p>\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=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=d666f0f0-f3b0-4207-8b55-5354a073aac2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS News posted a story yesterday about the fate of the American economy under President Obama. The article cites a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report projecting that America will never see full employment under President Obama. The article reports: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18163\">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":[97,3786,580,1334,1261,5255,562,285],"class_list":["post-18163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-cbo","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-cybercast-news-service","tag-douglas-w-elmendorf","tag-full-employment","tag-obama","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18163","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=18163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18168,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18163\/revisions\/18168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}