{"id":1848,"date":"2012-04-27T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2012-04-27T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:02:50","slug":"chart-of-the-day-us-vs-uk-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/chart-of-the-day-us-vs-uk-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"CHART OF THE DAY: US Vs. UK Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now the first thing to note is that the US has recovered WAY better than either the Eurozone or the UK. So if you think Obama has been a disaster, you might first acknowledge that the US has performed better than all its major Western peers.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, check out the UK line. The UK was recovering on a fine trajectory right up until early 2010, at which point UK growth hit a brick wall.<\/p>\n<p>What happened in 2010? That&#8217;s when conservative David Cameron came to power with an agenda of reigning in the debt. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Basically we have a life test of a country that wants to do what conservatives in the US want to do: reduce national debt.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so is a growth disaster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-us-vs-uk-growth-2012-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chart-of-the-day-real-gdp-rebased-to-100-in-2003-april-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-us-vs-uk-growth-2012-4\">CHART OF THE DAY: US Vs. UK Growth &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the first thing to note is that the US has recovered WAY better than either the Eurozone or the UK. So if you think Obama has been a disaster, you might first acknowledge that the US has performed better than all its major Western peers. But beyond that, check out the UK line. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16,22],"tags":[893,1147,536,537,1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}