{"id":5645,"date":"2010-12-28T22:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T03:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2010-12-28T22:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T03:21:58","slug":"stimulus-and-tax-cuts-not-a-long-term-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/12\/28\/stimulus-and-tax-cuts-not-a-long-term-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus And Tax Cuts Not a Long-Term Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an answer to a non-question. No economist who has escaped the clutches of Milton Friedman thinking would say or has said  that stimulus and tax-cuts are a long-term solution. The interviewer and the headline writer are obviously no match for the interviewee.  The interviewee quickly debunks the premise of the headline by stating the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>I think the interviewee has a good understanding of our economic problems and even manages to get some information out despite the distracting questions from the interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the fund-raising that precedes the actual interview. You can read the transcript at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=6004\">Real News<\/a> while muting the fund-raising appeal. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"460\" height=\"278\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"460\"\/><param name=\"height\" value=\"278\"\/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lN5g08KW6ho&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lN5g08KW6ho&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;showsearch=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"278\"  allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an answer to a non-question. No economist who has escaped the clutches of Milton Friedman thinking would say or has said that stimulus and tax-cuts are a long-term solution. The interviewer and the headline writer are obviously no match for the interviewee. The interviewee quickly debunks the premise of the headline by stating [&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-5645","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\/5645","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=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}