{"id":2739,"date":"2011-08-03T18:50:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2011-08-03T18:50:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:50:43","slug":"reality-is-clearly-not-her-strong-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/reality-is-clearly-not-her-strong-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality is clearly not her strong point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DNC&#8217;s <em>so called<\/em> &#8220;spokesperson&#8221; Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is still on her long term vacation from reality.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example is <a href=\"http:\/\/realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/08\/02\/debbie_wasserman_schultz_weve_really_begun_to_turn_the_economy_around.html\">her claiming that &#8220;We&#8217;ve Really Begun To Turn The Economy Around.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If she means that the democrats have turned the economy around by wedging it even further in the ditch he and the congressional democrats have wedged into with their\u00a0Keynesian\u00a0policies, then ya, she could be inhabiting the shared reality of rational adults, but I really don&#8217;t think that is the case.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s review a couple of recent\u00a0indicators\u00a0of just how the American economy is doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/08\/03\/unemployment-rose-in-nearly-all-us-cities\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29\">Unemployment rose in more than 90 percent of U.S. cities in June<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/44000051\">An increase in layoffs in the sector helped push the number of announced U.S. jobs cuts to a 16-month high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the decrease in demand for manufactured goods, the recent downgrades in the GDP for the past year, and rising inflation.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to spot check this, drive around your local town and see how many empty store fronts and office buildings there are. \u00a0Are there more or less than there were a year ago? \u00a0Unless you live in Texas, the answer is probably more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DNC&#8217;s so called &#8220;spokesperson&#8221; Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is still on her long term vacation from reality. The latest example is her claiming that &#8220;We&#8217;ve Really Begun To Turn The Economy Around.&#8221; If she means that the democrats have turned the economy around by wedging it even further in the ditch he and the congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,19],"tags":[141,262,294,414,466,574,621,820],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-politics","tag-barking-moonbat","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-keynesian","tag-obama-economy","tag-politics","tag-wasserman-schultz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Ib","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}