{"id":7941,"date":"2009-02-18T07:31:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2009-02-18T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:51:07","slug":"wheres-the-stimulating-part-of-the-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7941","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the stimulating part of the stimulus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the president signed his stimulus bill yesterday, the stock market tumbled to new lows;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/market-summary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7942\" title=\"market-summary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/market-summary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/market-summary.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/market-summary-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCNN marveled at the fall, claiming that the shrinking value in the market was &#8220;despite&#8221; the stimulus bill &#8211; I guess it didn&#8217;t occur to them that the tumble was BECAUSE of the stimulus bill;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cnn-despite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7943\" title=\"cnn-despite\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cnn-despite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cnn-despite.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cnn-despite-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCNN wonders if maybe the contraction wasn&#8217;t because the President didn&#8217;t spend enough money.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post takes the same tack;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wapo-global.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7944\" title=\"wapo-global\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wapo-global.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wapo-global.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wapo-global-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The truth is this: The markets&#8217; biggest decline came STARTING on the day Obama was elected because investors (that&#8217;s you and I, by the way) have no confidence that Democrats are committed to helping the economy. Their &#8220;stimulus&#8221; is is actually just buying patronage and votes. They&#8217;re doing absolutely nothing for the economy and the country realizes it &#8211; no matter how much camouflage the media throws up for him.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recovery.Gov<\/a> where we&#8217;re supposed to be able to track our money as it spins down the drain. I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what &#8220;Protecting the Vulnerable&#8221; means and why it&#8217;ll cost $81 billion. It sounds to me like it&#8217;s to protect vulnerable congressional seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the president signed his stimulus bill yesterday, the stock market tumbled to new lows; CNN &hellip; <a title=\"Where&#8217;s the stimulating part of the stimulus?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7941\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where&#8217;s the stimulating part of the stimulus?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,47,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-liberals-suck","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}