{"id":6296,"date":"2011-06-19T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T03:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2011-06-19T22:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T03:59:34","slug":"no-need-for-dem-and-gop-governors-to-embrace-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/06\/19\/no-need-for-dem-and-gop-governors-to-embrace-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"No Need For Dem. and GOP Governors To Embrace Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MgGKkc1oV4Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above <strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"RealNews Web Site origin of the interview\" href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=6934\">video of the interview with Bob Pollin<\/a><\/strong> explains that &#8220;There are many ways states can deal with crisis without cuts to services.&#8221; The paper from the <em>Political Economy Research Institute<\/em> at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst <strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"link to downlaod the research paper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peri.umass.edu\/236\/hash\/5e9096a6094f56c47539961c048f9e55\/publication\/465\/\">Fighting Austerity and Reclaiming a Future for State and Local Governments<\/a><\/strong> is the supporting research for the claims of Bob Pollin.<\/p>\n<p>I have had special sympathy for the constraints on state and local governments in handling their budget crises because they were constitutionally forced to balance their budgets on an annual basis.  I thought that there was not much they could do to rescue themselves, but depended on federal help that was being blocked by Republicans in the Federal government.<\/p>\n<p>I was ready to argue with the interviewee who just did not comprehend that reality,  Instead what I found was a person who fully understood the constraints and had come up with methods I had not considered to fight against those constraints.<\/p>\n<p>After having listened to this interview, I now have much less sympathy for what the state governments are doing and what they are failing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above video of the interview with Bob Pollin explains that &#8220;There are many ways states can deal with crisis without cuts to services.&#8221; The paper from the Political Economy Research Institute at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fighting Austerity and Reclaiming a Future for State and Local Governments is the supporting research for the [&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-6296","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\/6296","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=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}