{"id":15064,"date":"2013-11-05T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15064"},"modified":"2013-11-05T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:51:04","slug":"what-so-proudly-we-hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/05\/what-so-proudly-we-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"What So Proudly We Hail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is promoting the message about <a title=\"White House post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/share\/cutting-our-deficit-half\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cutting our deficit in half<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new report has some big economic news you probably missed: Since 2009, we&#8217;ve cut our deficit in half &#8212; and it&#8217;s falling at its fastest rate since World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the graphic that they have come up with:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/share\/cutting-our-deficit-half\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Debt Cutting Graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/wh_2013_deficit_chart_large.gif\" width=\"95%\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>And now you know why the economy is in the crapper.  What a misbegotten feat that Obama is hailing so proudly.<\/p>\n<p>We should be keeping the deficit high until the economy recovers.  What a missed opportunity to invest in building and maintaining infrastructure on the cheap while also boosting the economy and cutting the rolls of the unemployed and suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is promoting the message about Cutting our deficit in half. A new report has some big economic news you probably missed: Since 2009, we&#8217;ve cut our deficit in half &#8212; and it&#8217;s falling at its fastest rate since World War II. Here is the graphic that they have come up with: And [&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-15064","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\/15064","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=15064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15066,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15064\/revisions\/15066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}