{"id":7796,"date":"2015-01-09T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:12:40","slug":"economy-now-off-the-table-for-2016-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7796","title":{"rendered":"Economy now off the table for 2016 campaign?"},"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>Let&#8217;s allow this declaration: Barring an unexpected collapse that could occur at any moment, the state of the nation&#8217;s economy will not be an issue in the 2016 campaign for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department released more job numbers today. They&#8217;re good.<\/p>\n<p>The economy added 252,000 jobs in December; unemployment fell from 5.8 percent to 5.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Job Growth Fails to Help Paychecks of Workers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F01%2F10%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fjobs-unemployment-figures-december.html#?secret=Oh7lNIwHdV\" data-secret=\"Oh7lNIwHdV\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is it a perfect score? No. Wages took a slight dip in December, compared to the substantial growth they showed the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Republican contenders for the White House, though, are going to have to look beyond our borders for issues to toss against Democrats &#8212; namely against Hillary Rodham Clinton. Those opportunities aren&#8217;t going to be that easy to exploit against the former secretary of state, former U.S. senator, former first lady\u00a0and prohibitive frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The economy? Well, I&#8217;ve noted before how the Obama administration took bold steps early on to stop the free fall it inherited when Barack Obama took the presidential oath on Jan. 20, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The economy is picking up considerable steam now.<\/p>\n<p>The war on terror? It&#8217;s still going on. Yes, the president said the &#8220;war on terror is over.&#8221; He misspoke. The nation continues to hunt down killers, who continue to strike at innocent victims, such as those most recently in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face this cold, harsh fact: The war on terror is unlike any war we&#8217;ve ever fought. There will be no way to declare victory. The 9\/11 attacks brought forward what intelligence analysts and deep-cover agents have known all along, that terrorists are out there plotting against us.<\/p>\n<p>That fight will go on, and on, and on.<\/p>\n<p>At home, though, the economy has recovered.<\/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>Let&#8217;s allow this declaration: Barring an unexpected collapse that could occur at any moment, the state of the nation&#8217;s economy will not be an issue in the 2016 campaign for president of the United States. The Labor Department released more job numbers today. They&#8217;re good. 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