{"id":190137,"date":"2010-01-03T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/03\/what-10-years-of-conservatives-getting-what-they-wanted-got-us\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:56:00","slug":"what-10-years-of-conservatives-getting-what-they-wanted-got-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/03\/what-10-years-of-conservatives-getting-what-they-wanted-got-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What 10 Years of Conservatives Getting What They Wanted Got Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img706.imageshack.us\/img706\/5290\/gr20100101014789970054.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img706.imageshack.us\/img706\/5290\/gr20100101014789970054.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Note that private employment rolls actually fell<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img682.imageshack.us\/img682\/3047\/gr20100101017010371994.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img682.imageshack.us\/img682\/3047\/gr20100101017010371994.gif\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And in handy bar graph form<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post correctly called the &#8220;Aughts&#8221; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/01\/AR2010010101196.html\">lost decade<\/a>, inflation adjusted median income fell (for the first time on record), non-farm payroll experienced <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">no<\/span> growth (for the first time on record), household wealth fell (for the first time on record), GDP rose by the lowest number since at least the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704786204574607993448916718.html\">the stock market<\/a>, only in this case, the records go back 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>We have had a grand experiment of embracing conservative philosophy, with a highly right wing executive and a compliant legislative branch, since 2001 and the result has been miserable failure.<\/p>\n<p>The past decade may not be as bad as the Great Depression, but it beats anything else in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> or 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">it is not over yet<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Note that private employment rolls actually fell And in handy bar graph form The Washington Post correctly called the &#8220;Aughts&#8221; a lost decade, inflation adjusted median income fell (for the first time on record), non-farm payroll experienced no growth (for the first time on record), household wealth fell (for the first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1009,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-government","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190137"}],"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=190137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}