{"id":145025,"date":"2014-03-30T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=145025"},"modified":"2014-03-27T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T23:41:47","slug":"obama-fiscally-conservative-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/03\/30\/obama-fiscally-conservative-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/obama-reagan.jpg\" alt=\"Obama Reagan\" width=\"550\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/obama-reagan.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/obama-reagan-200x120.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Article:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-vs-reagan-deficits-2014-3\">Obama Is More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan<\/a> by Joe Weisenthal in Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Text:<\/strong> Why isn&#8217;t the economy surging?<\/p>\n<p>Because we&#8217;re still running a policy of government austerity.<\/p>\n<p>This chart, via our friend Matt Busigin, shows that at this point in his Presidency, Reagan was running a deficit as a % of GDP that&#8217;s higher than what Obama is today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/deficit-gdp.jpg\" alt=\"Deficit GDP\" width=\"742\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/deficit-gdp.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/deficit-gdp-200x115.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/deficit-gdp-600x346.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article: Obama Is More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan by Joe Weisenthal in Business Insider. The Text: Why isn&#8217;t the economy surging? Because we&#8217;re still running a policy of government austerity. This chart, via our friend Matt Busigin, shows that at this point in his Presidency, Reagan was running a deficit as a % of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama, More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Buzzword: austerity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/03\/30\/obama-fiscally-conservative-reagan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama, 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