{"id":3747,"date":"2012-09-08T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2012-09-08T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:49:55","slug":"a-socialist-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"A socialist for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting plots from Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/08\/employment-in-two-administrations\/\">The New York Times<\/a>. Compare Obama&#8217;s and Bush&#8217;s record for private sector employment in the first 40+ months of their respective presidencies (yes, this would mean Bush&#8217;s first term, in 2001):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman1-blog480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3748\" title=\"090812krugman1-blog480\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman1-blog480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman1-blog480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman1-blog480-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And compare their public sector employment statistics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman2-blog480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3749\" title=\"090812krugman2-blog480\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman2-blog480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman2-blog480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090812krugman2-blog480-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So which one, exactly, is the &#8220;big government socialist&#8221;?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3747' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting plots from Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, courtesy of The New York Times. Compare Obama&#8217;s and Bush&#8217;s record for private sector employment in the first 40+ months of their respective presidencies (yes, this would mean Bush&#8217;s first term, in 2001): And compare their public sector employment statistics: So which one, exactly, is the <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3747' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}