{"id":749,"date":"2009-04-21T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2009-04-21T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T06:53:13","slug":"numbers_are_always_interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Numbers Are Always Interesting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Obama announced that he would be doing some serious budget cutting.&nbsp; He met with his Cabinet and told them he wanted $100 million (I&#8217;m writing it that way because it&#8217;s early in the morning and my brain can&#8217;t handle all the zeroes) in budget cuts.&nbsp; Wow!<\/p>\n<p>According to Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/20\/obama-demands-00029-budget-cut-after-running-up-spending\/\">Hot Air<\/a>, this amounts to a 0.0029% cut on a budget of $ 3.5 trillion dollars (not to mention the pork-laden stimulus package of $787 billion).&nbsp; This is not budget cutting&#8211;this is a symbolic response to the tea parties last week.&nbsp; I hope the voters are paying enough attention to the numbers to realize that this is a scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Obama announced that he would be doing some serious budget cutting.&nbsp; He met with his Cabinet and told them he wanted $100 million (I&#8217;m writing it that way because it&#8217;s early in the morning and my brain can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=749\">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-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}