{"id":652,"date":"2009-03-26T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-03-26T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:11:14","slug":"budget_a_or_budget_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Budget A Or Budget B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0309\/20509.html\">Politico.com<\/a>, the Republicans has unveiled their alternative budget plan.&nbsp; Just for the record, I have not been a big fan of the Republican Party in recent years.&nbsp; The only good thing I can say about them at times is that they are the second worst political party in the country.&nbsp; That having been said, they are making a few good moves lately.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday they introduced an alternative plan to deal with the housing crisis.&nbsp; Today they have introduced an alternative to President Obama&#8217;s budget.&nbsp; We desperately need an alternative&#8211;not just a &#8216;no&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, these are the basics of the Republican budge plan:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The principles in the Republican budget will sound familiar: &#8220;limits the federal budget from growing faster than the family budget, &#8230; provides universal access to health care and secures entitlements, &#8230; lowers taxes, &#8230; keeps energy and fuel costs low, &#8230; ends the bailouts and reforms the financial system, &#8230; keep the cost of living low.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The burden of taxes that President Obama&#8217;s budget will put on present and future generations is irresponsible and will also put a drag on any economic growth.&nbsp; Cap and trade will kill the American economy for years to come.&nbsp; An alternative budget is definitely needed and I hope the proposals made will be considered carefully.&nbsp; Meanwhile, get the name of the people who are organizing the &#8216;tea parties&#8217; for April 15!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Politico.com, the Republicans has unveiled their alternative budget plan.&nbsp; Just for the record, I have not been a big fan of the Republican Party in recent years.&nbsp; The only good thing I can say about them at times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=652\">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-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}