{"id":2052,"date":"2010-07-15T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2010-07-15T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T19:11:30","slug":"it_is_possible_to_overcome_a_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"It Is Possible To Overcome A Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/Virginia-back-in-black-1000416-98456009.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story stating&nbsp;that Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia is reporting a budget surplus for his state rather than the predicted deficit.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;McDonnell estimated that the surplus for the fiscal year that ended June 30 will be at least $220 million after miscellaneous interest payments are made.&nbsp; The final figure will be made official in August after year-end adjustments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In January it was reported that the Commonwealth of Virginia was facing a $1.8 billion budget deficit for the fiscal year, which ended June 30th.&nbsp; The Commonwealth ended the year with a $220 million surplus.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please follow the link above to read the article, which details the steps taken to turn a deficit into a surplus.&nbsp; The article makes clear that there are still financial challenges ahead for Virginia, but this was a major step forward.&nbsp; I wonder if Governor McDonnell is willing to help the Obama Administration with its budget problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;posted a story stating&nbsp;that Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia is reporting a budget surplus for his state rather than the predicted deficit.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;McDonnell estimated that the surplus for the fiscal year that ended June &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2052\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}