{"id":10594,"date":"2009-01-08T18:44:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/speech_exceprts_from_president_elect_obamas_major_address_on_the_economy_la\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:44:17","slug":"speech_exceprts_from_president_elect_obamas_major_address_on_the_economy_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10594","title":{"rendered":"Speech exceprts from President Elect Obama&#39;s Major Address on the Economy later today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s too late to change course, but it will be if we don&#8217;t take dramatic action as soon as possible. If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years. The unemployment rate could reach double digits. Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four. We could lose a generation of potential and promise, as more young Americans are forced to forgo dreams of college or the chance to train for the jobs of the future. And our nation could lose the competitive edge that has served as a foundation for our strength and standing in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In short, a bad situation could become dramatically worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2009\/01\/08\/speech_excerpts_released.html\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s too late to change course, but it will be if we don&#8217;t take dramatic action as soon as possible. If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years. The unemployment rate could reach double digits.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10594\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}