{"id":1384,"date":"2009-12-11T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/12\/obama-is-only-interested-in-the-economy-as-a-secondary-matter-chiefly-he%e2%80%99s-interested-in-power-and-rearranging-the-order-of-society\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T19:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:55:35","slug":"obama-is-only-interested-in-the-economy-as-a-secondary-matter-chiefly-hes-interested-in-power-and-rearranging-the-order-of-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/12\/obama-is-only-interested-in-the-economy-as-a-secondary-matter-chiefly-hes-interested-in-power-and-rearranging-the-order-of-society.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama is only interested in the economy as a secondary matter; chiefly, he\u2019s interested in power and rearranging the order of society&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026\u201dOne of the market\u2019s biggest concerns is the absence of available credit, the weak dollar, and the growing fiscal sickness of the American government. All would be improved if Obama were to use this unspent money immediately to reduce the deficit or to shore up the FDIC or to engage in some other prudent, unsexy, and long-term matter. But he\u2019s constitutionally incapable of doing so because, in spite of his alleged reluctance to have the government overly involved in the economy, he has not yet resisted a temptation to tinker, whether in autos, housing, or healthcare\u2026\u201d [read the <a href=\"http:\/\/mansizedtarget.com\/2009\/12\/10\/obamas-right-on-jobs-and-the-deficit\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">full article here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-7015343443918249947?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026\u201dOne of the market\u2019s biggest concerns is the absence of available credit, the weak dollar, and the growing fiscal sickness of the American government. 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