{"id":13994,"date":"2013-07-31T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13994"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:48:07","slug":"a-better-bargain-for-the-middle-class-jobs-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/07\/31\/a-better-bargain-for-the-middle-class-jobs-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Bargain for the Middle Class: Jobs &#038; The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment to my previous post, <strong><a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/07\/30\/obama-proposes-deal-over-taxes-and-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Proposes Deal Over Taxes and Jobs<\/a><\/strong>, I asked readers to look at <strong><a title=\"President Obama's Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/a-better-bargain?sid=26540496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">President Obama\u2019s Bargain For The Middle Class<\/a><\/strong> to see if it would be safe for me to look at.<\/p>\n<p>Reader MardyS took up the task.&nbsp; He assured me that I would not be disappointed in what I saw.&nbsp; The following video is one of the items from that web page:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45SyjiEl0DY\"style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This excerpt of the speech provided by the Obama administration does make the President&#8217;s proposal sound better than the impression I got from reading the news reports of his proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment to my previous post, Obama Proposes Deal Over Taxes and Jobs, I asked readers to look at President Obama\u2019s Bargain For The Middle Class to see if it would be safe for me to look at. Reader MardyS took up the task.&nbsp; He assured me that I would not be disappointed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13995,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions\/13995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}