{"id":4664,"date":"2010-09-11T08:13:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2010-09-11T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T13:14:55","slug":"things-could-be-worse-let-the-republicans-show-us-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/09\/11\/things-could-be-worse-let-the-republicans-show-us-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Could Be Worse, Let The Republicans Show Us How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman in <em>The New York Times<\/em> piece <a title=\"Paul Krugman column\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/10\/opinion\/10krugman.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Things Could Be Worse<\/strong><\/a> explains how bad it is in Japan.\u00a0 Yet our Republicans could make our economy even worse than that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s hard to overstate how destructive the economic ideas offered earlier this week by John Boehner, the House minority leader, would be if put into practice. Basically, he proposes two things: large tax cuts for the wealthy that would increase the budget deficit while doing little to support the economy, and sharp spending cuts that would depress the economy while doing little to improve budget prospects. Fewer jobs and bigger deficits \u2014 the perfect combination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman in The New York Times piece Things Could Be Worse explains how bad it is in Japan.\u00a0 Yet our Republicans could make our economy even worse than that. It\u2019s hard to overstate how destructive the economic ideas offered earlier this week by John Boehner, the House minority leader, would be if put into [&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-4664","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\/4664","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=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}