{"id":7346,"date":"2014-12-06T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2014-12-06T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:22:19","slug":"big-jobs-numbers-but-still-no-gop-applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7346","title":{"rendered":"Big jobs numbers, but still no GOP applause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Critics of President Obama have been beating the drum for years about the economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, nice jobs numbers, but those wages just aren&#8217;t increasing, they say, while lampooning the economic recovery as a sort of mirage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Big Job Gains and Rising Pay in Labor Data\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F12%2F06%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fnovember-jobs-unemployment-figures.html#?secret=sq09PVTZCI\" data-secret=\"sq09PVTZCI\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s news brought some serious good cheer to some of us, but not all.<\/p>\n<p>The economy added 321,000 jobs in November. Wages increased 0.4 percent as well. The bottom line? The economy is finally beginning to be felt in people&#8217;s homes.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be cheering among congressional critics of the president? Don&#8217;t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that they&#8217;ll find a way to spread the joy among <em>themselves<\/em> without giving credit to a federal economic policy that&#8217;s been working for, oh, about the past five-plus years.<\/p>\n<p>The stock market is heading into record territory &#8212; again. The trade deficit is down. The budget deficit is down. The national debt is slowing. Unemployment remains less than 6 percent. Investments are up. Spending is up. Real estate prices are up. Auto sales are up. Domestic energy production is up. Gasoline prices are plummeting.<\/p>\n<p>Holy cow! I can&#8217;t stand all this good news!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just have to proclaim it from this forum yet again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of President Obama have been beating the drum for years about the economic recovery. Yeah, nice jobs numbers, but those wages just aren&#8217;t increasing, they say, while lampooning the economic recovery as a sort of mirage. Today&#8217;s news brought some serious good cheer to some of us, but not all. The economy added 321,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big jobs numbers, but still no GOP applause<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[540,775,1591,2503,2711,3197,4876],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget-deficit","tag-energy-policy","tag-joblessness","tag-labor-market","tag-national-debt","tag-trade-deficit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}