{"id":2270,"date":"2004-08-05T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2270.html"},"modified":"2004-08-05T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T17:04:58","slug":"what-corner-have-we-turned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/what-corner-have-we-turned\/","title":{"rendered":"What corner have we turned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/08\/20040804-5.html\">Bush said<\/a> in Davenport, Iowa, yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Because we acted, Iowa&#8217;s unemployment rate now is 4.3 percent. When it comes to creating jobs for American workers, we are turning the corner and we&#8217;re not going back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/mtarchives\/003046.html\">what he didn&#8217;t say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In November of 2000, Iowa&#8217;s unemployment rate was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ded.mo.gov\/business\/researchandplanning\/indicators\/unemp\/unemp-nov2000.shtml\">2.5%<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget; <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=125-08032004\">results matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what Bush said in Davenport, Iowa, yesterday: &#8220;Because we acted, Iowa&#8217;s unemployment rate now is 4.3 percent. When it comes to creating jobs for American workers, we are turning the corner and we&#8217;re not going back.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what he didn&#8217;t say: In November of 2000, Iowa&#8217;s unemployment rate was 2.5%. Don&#8217;t forget; results matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}