{"id":6688,"date":"2011-07-14T19:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T00:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2011-07-14T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T00:36:47","slug":"raise-the-ceiling-or-lower-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/14\/raise-the-ceiling-or-lower-the-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise The Ceiling or Lower The Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa.wiredforchange.com\/o\/6503\/images\/Debt%20Celing%20cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"Raise the ceiling or lower the floor political cartoon\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I received this cartoon in an email from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsaction.org\/limit\" title=\"RootsAction At Our Limit campaign\" target=\"_blank\">RootsAction At Our Limit campaign<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe politicians in Washington have it all wrong. Republicans and Democrats are focused on the debt ceiling &#8211; and are preparing to make cuts to Medicare and Social Security while keeping huge tax cuts for billionaires. We&#8217;re saying no way. We want to talk about what most Americans need in the budget &#8211; and how we can pressure Democrats to hold the line and push our needs forward.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this cartoon in an email from RootsAction At Our Limit campaign The politicians in Washington have it all wrong. Republicans and Democrats are focused on the debt ceiling &#8211; and are preparing to make cuts to Medicare and Social Security while keeping huge tax cuts for billionaires. We&#8217;re saying no way. We want [&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-6688","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\/6688","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=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}