{"id":3154,"date":"2012-03-13T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2012-03-13T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T12:20:56","slug":"can-we-learn-from-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/can-we-learn-from-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we learn from history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, let&#8217;s review <a href=\"https:\/\/eramblings2.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/24\/another-one-the-lefties-got-wrong\/\">a post I made back in July 2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/23\/oil-down-dollar-up-since-bush-rescinded-drilling-restrictions\/\">Oil down, dollar up since Bush rescinded drilling restrictions<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Remember the leftist mantra about how \u201cif we started drilling now, it wouldn\u2019t effect prices for 10 years.\u201d Well, they got that wrong too, just like Barak Obama\u2019s predictions about the Troop Surge in Iraq. 100%, flat out wrong again. Yes, there is a pattern here.<\/p>\n<p>Then, lets review the current President&#8217;s energy policy of restricting domestic energy production and the results of those polices, i.e. steadily rising gas prices and the dollar losing value.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure those lefties who called GW Bush &#8220;the worst President ever&#8221; got it seriously wrong. \u00a0Our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> has clearly claimed that title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let&#8217;s review a post I made back in July 2008: Oil down, dollar up since Bush rescinded drilling restrictions Remember the leftist mantra about how \u201cif we started drilling now, it wouldn\u2019t effect prices for 10 years.\u201d Well, they got that wrong too, just like Barak Obama\u2019s predictions about the Troop Surge in Iraq. [&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":[6,7,50,52,19],"tags":[140,262,294,300,414,574,584,621,839],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-energy","category-obama-economy-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-incompetent","tag-obama-economy","tag-one-term-president","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-OS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","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=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}