{"id":6316,"date":"2011-06-21T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2011-06-21T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:27:00","slug":"our-allies-in-congress-have-a-plan-to-fix-the-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/06\/21\/our-allies-in-congress-have-a-plan-to-fix-the-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Allies In Congress Have A Plan To Fix The Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email from TrueMajority.org titled <a title=\"Email from TrueMajority.org\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.truemajority.org\/o\/2\/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=2407\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Our allies in Congress have a plan to fix the deficit<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 To quote from the email (and the web page at the previous link):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our allies at ProgressiveCongress.org and in the Congressional Progressive Caucus are mounting <strong>a nation-wide tour to drum up support for good jobs, ending the Bush tax cuts and making the American economy work for working people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Caucus&#8217; &#8220;People&#8217;s Budget&#8221; was already the best and most comprehensive progressive budget option in the House. And with dozens of cosponsors, it&#8217;s <strong>a viable option to balance the budget while protecting investments in social programs<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more at their web site and sign a petition in support.\u00a0 You could also contribute some money if you were of a mind to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, I had a blog post, <a title=\"Blog post with a link to the people's budget\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?s=people%27s+budget\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Introducing the people\u2019s budget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email from TrueMajority.org titled Our allies in Congress have a plan to fix the deficit.\u00a0 To quote from the email (and the web page at the previous link): Our allies at ProgressiveCongress.org and in the Congressional Progressive Caucus are mounting a nation-wide tour to drum up support for good jobs, ending 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-6316","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\/6316","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=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6318,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}