{"id":3189,"date":"2011-07-21T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2011-07-21T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:47:28","slug":"places_spending_can_be_cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"Places Spending Can Be Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Hayward posted an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/overlooked-spending-cut-targets.php\">Power Line<\/a> today noting some places where spending might be reasonably cut.&nbsp; He points out that although the current converstaion seems to be focused on Social Security and Medicare, there are other prorgrams that have grown totally out of control&nbsp;and need to be looked at.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hayward points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The four largest federally funded poverty programs&#8211;Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, and supplemental income programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit&#8211;cost $650 billion last year, compared to $451 billion for Medicare.&nbsp; The real problem is not the high spending amounts per se, but the way they have expanded willy-nilly beyond the ranks of the truly poor, which has run up their price tags beyond where they ought to be.&nbsp; Some states offer benefits up to 200 percent of the poverty line, and Obamacare includes subsidies for people up to 400 percent of the poverty line&#8211;people ordinarily called &#8220;middle class.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These programs need to be reexamined not only for their eligibility requirements, but also to evaluate the success of the program.&nbsp; Programs that do not do what they were designed to do need to be scrapped.&nbsp; The only thing that seems to be immortal in today&#8217;s world is a government program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Hayward posted an article at Power Line today noting some places where spending might be reasonably cut.&nbsp; He points out that although the current converstaion seems to be focused on Social Security and Medicare, there are other prorgrams that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3189\">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-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}