{"id":7096,"date":"2014-10-23T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2014-10-23T16:03:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:03:37","slug":"theres-no-sugar-coating-obamas-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/10\/23\/theres-no-sugar-coating-obamas-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no sugar-coating Obama&#8217;s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his 60 Minutes interview late last month, President Obama put an old and familiar rhetorical question to the voters: \u201cRonald Reagan used to ask the question, \u2018Are you better off than you were four years ago?\u2019\u2026And the answer is, the country is definitely better off than we were when I came into office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most members of the public do not share this view, according to this week\u2019s Washington Post\/ABC News poll. Only 22 percent surveyed agreed that they are \u201cbetter off financially\u201d than they were when Obama was inaugurated in January 2009 \u2014 including only 37 percent of Democratic partisans. This says a lot about how people feel, because six years ago, the nation was embroiled in the very financial crisis that Obama still cites to absolve himself from blame for America\u2019s continued economic doldrums.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed in the same interview, Obama had to concede that most Americans aren\u2019t feeling the recovery he has been touting ever since the so-called \u201cRecovery Summer\u201d of 2010. That\u2019s because for workers, there hasn\u2019t been much of a recovery.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry141023-195950\">There&#8217;s no sugar-coating Obama&#8217;s economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his 60 Minutes interview late last month, President Obama put an old and familiar rhetorical question to the voters: \u201cRonald Reagan used to ask the question, \u2018Are you better off than you were four years ago?\u2019\u2026And the answer is, the country is definitely better off than we were when I came into office.\u201d Most members of the public do not share this view, according to this week\u2019s Washington Post\/ABC News poll. Only 22 percent surveyed agreed that they are \u201cbetter off financially\u201d than they were when Obama was inaugurated in January 2009 \u2014 including only 37 percent of Democratic partisans. This says a lot about how people feel, because six years ago, the nation was embroiled in the very financial crisis that Obama still cites to absolve himself from blame for America\u2019s continued economic doldrums. When pressed in the same interview, Obama had to concede that most Americans aren\u2019t feeling the recovery he has been touting ever since the so-called \u201cRecovery Summer\u201d of 2010. That\u2019s because for workers, there hasn\u2019t been much of a recovery. via There&#8217;s no sugar-coating Obama&#8217;s economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[622],"class_list":["post-7096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}