{"id":2792,"date":"2012-02-02T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/the-economy-is-great-all-is-well.html"},"modified":"2012-02-02T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:32:00","slug":"the-economy-is-great-all-is-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/the-economy-is-great-all-is-well.html","title":{"rendered":"The economy is great, all is well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So says the AP headlines<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course companies are cutting left and right, and there are indicators that things are in rough times ahead.\u00a0 This also ignoring the fact that each month shows more and more Americans falling off the other end of unemployment \u2013 having been far too long on unemployment and having exhausted their last benefits.\u00a0 But hey!\u00a0 This is the AP, it\u2019s primary focus is to get us to ignore the piles of garbage and refuse littering the streets in order to get The One reelected.\u00a0 So all of us who are struggling to stay on the sinking ship, to all those who are trying to stay alive, afloat, or whatever \u2013 shut up.\u00a0 You\u2019re ruining the narrative that salvation is through Obama alone, and therefore his anti-Christian despotic regime must be continued.\u00a0 Well done, o ministry of propaganda.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

BTW, you have to read to the end of the shining article of happiness and prosperity to find the obligatory qualifier that avoids the flagrant \u2018we lied!\u2019 charge:<\/p>\n

\u201cMost economists expected the combination of weaker inventory growth and tepid consumer spending to lead to slower growth in the current January-March quarter. Many are predicting 2 percent annualized growth this quarter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So says the AP headlines.\u00a0 Of course companies are cutting left and right, and there are indicators that things are in rough times ahead.\u00a0 This also ignoring the fact that each month shows more and more Americans falling off the other end of unemployment \u2013 having been far too long on unemployment and having exhausted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe economy is great, all is well<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So says the AP headlines.  Of course companies are cutting left and right, and there are indicators that things are in rough times ahead.  This\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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