{"id":187521,"date":"2011-06-01T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/01\/and-still-they-blather-about-the-deficit\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:23:00","slug":"and-still-they-blather-about-the-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/01\/and-still-they-blather-about-the-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"And Still, They Blather About the Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADP&#8217;s private payroll report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-0602-adp-jobs-20110601,0,1788773.story\">showed an increase of only 38,000 in May<\/a>, which, when you consider the obvious cuts in state and local payrolls, and lord knows what in the non-profit sector, means that we are looking about a decline in the workforce if the federal numbers come close to matching this report.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Conference Board&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2011\/05\/consumer-confidence-drops-to-lowest-level-this-year\/239682\/\">consumer confidence report fell<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-06-01\/gm-may-u-s-vehicle-sales-decline-1-2-missing-estimate-of-1-5-increase.html\">auto sales fell for all the major auto manufacturers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And still the Democrats are buying into the Republican meme that our problem is the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Robin Williams, &#8220;Shazbat!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADP&#8217;s private payroll report showed an increase of only 38,000 in May, which, when you consider the obvious cuts in state and local payrolls, and lord knows what in the non-profit sector, means that we are looking about a decline in the workforce if the federal numbers come close to matching this report. Additionally, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,973,975,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-economy","category-employment","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}