{"id":7101,"date":"2011-08-12T07:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T12:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2011-08-12T07:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T12:26:40","slug":"the-beast-is-starved-welcome-to-the-next-great-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/08\/12\/the-beast-is-starved-welcome-to-the-next-great-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tangelia's Facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1097213806\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tangelia Sinclair-Moore<\/strong><\/a> posted a link to <a title=\"The Beast article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2011\/08\/04-2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression<\/strong><\/a> on her Facebook page. The article begins with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a \u201cstarve the beast\u201d campaign \u2013 by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can.<\/p>\n<p>Starving the beast has been the biggest bait and switch con game that has ever been perpetrated on the American people. And the most tragic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I post this mostly for my own record-keeping so that I can find this article when I want to read it again. As I start to read <a title=\"Web site for The Fourth Turning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fourthturning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy<\/strong><\/a>, I am learning that the crisis phase for this country must occur. No posts of mine are going to stop it. There is a hint in what I have read so far that there are some actions worth taking even though the crisis is inevitable. I will report back here, when I find out what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangelia Sinclair-Moore posted a link to The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression on her Facebook page. The article begins with the following: Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a \u201cstarve the beast\u201d campaign \u2013 by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can. Starving [&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-7101","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\/7101","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=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}