{"id":2680,"date":"2011-02-15T08:04:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2011-02-15T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T08:04:34","slug":"the_coming_battle_for_the_budg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Battle For The Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before all of us go into panic mode because the Republican budget cuts programs that aid the poor, we need to remember something&#8211;these programs grew exponentially during the past five years.&nbsp; Most of the cuts suggested will simply bring us back to 2008 levels.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/028364.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;posted this chart yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 523px; HEIGHT: 427px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/media\/FederalSpending0471.002.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This shows the rate of growth of federal spending in the past thirteen years through the next nine years.&nbsp; Does your household income chart look like this?&nbsp; Has your income grown at this rate?&nbsp; What shape would your household finances be in if your spending curve over this period followed this chart?<\/p>\n<p>More analysis to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before all of us go into panic mode because the Republican budget cuts programs that aid the poor, we need to remember something&#8211;these programs grew exponentially during the past five years.&nbsp; Most of the cuts suggested will simply bring us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2680\">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-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","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=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}