{"id":5160,"date":"2010-11-12T21:28:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2010-11-12T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:28:54","slug":"why-we-should-beware-budget-deficit-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/11\/12\/why-we-should-beware-budget-deficit-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Beware Budget-Deficit Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commentary, <a title=\"Robert Reich's article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/why-we-should-beware-budget-deficit-mania65069\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why We Should Beware Budget-Deficit Mania<\/strong><\/a>, by Robert Reich is posted on <em>Truth-out.org<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Congress and the President started right now to cut the federal deficit \u2013 slashing spending and raising taxes on the middle class \u2013 our anemic economy would quickly become comatose.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, budget-deficit mania will slow future growth if it forces government to cut the things that fuel growth \u2013 education, basic R&amp;D, child health, improved infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. America\u2019s projected budget deficits require attention. But in addressing them we need to focus on the right solutions, and make sure we\u2019re solving the right problem.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary report of the President\u2019s deficit commission doesn\u2019t help. It\u2019s another example of budget-deficit mania generating more heat than light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commentary, Why We Should Beware Budget-Deficit Mania, by Robert Reich is posted on Truth-out.org. If Congress and the President started right now to cut the federal deficit \u2013 slashing spending and raising taxes on the middle class \u2013 our anemic economy would quickly become comatose. . . . Even worse, budget-deficit mania will slow [&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-5160","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\/5160","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=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}