{"id":2978,"date":"2011-05-16T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2011-05-16T15:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:58:32","slug":"what_did_the_stimulus_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"What Did The Stimulus Do ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A picture is worth a thousand words.&nbsp; This picture comes from John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/05\/029042.php\">Power Line<\/a>.&nbsp; He posted it yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"CMR10\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"CMR10\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Monthly employment (seasonally adjusted), January 2001 through September 2010, by sector<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 513px; HEIGHT: 351px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/media\/ARRA0076.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spent nearly a trillion dollars.&nbsp; What did it do?&nbsp; It destroyed a net of more than one-half million jobs.&nbsp; The article at Power Line points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;goods-producing industries have completely failed to benefit from ARRA and the Obama administration&#8217;s other misguided policies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The policies of the Obama Administration have done more to prolong the recession and destroy private industry in America than they have to foster economic recovery.&nbsp; It&#8217;s time they stopped blocking the policies that would allow the American economy to grow again.&nbsp; Not only do I support drill, baby, drill, I want to see all regulations examined and eliminated in the places where the government has overstepped its bounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture is worth a thousand words.&nbsp; This picture comes from John Hinderaker at Power Line.&nbsp; He posted it yesterday. &nbsp; Monthly employment (seasonally adjusted), January 2001 through September 2010, by sector The&nbsp;American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spent nearly a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2978\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}