{"id":845,"date":"2009-05-23T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2009-05-23T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T08:39:22","slug":"americans_are_paying_attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are Paying Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics2\/77_see_politicians_unwillingness_to_cut_government_spending_as_bigger_problem_than_voter_resistance_to_tax_hikes\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a>, 77 % of American voters see unwillingness to cut government spending as a bigger problem than resistence to tax hikes!&nbsp; Just 28% of all voters say that increasing government spending will help the economy.&nbsp; Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans and 61% of unaffiliated voters believe increased government spending hurts the economy.&nbsp; 49% of Democrats think more government spending is good for the economy, while just 27% say it hurts.&nbsp; 83% of the &#8216;Political Class&#8217; believes increased &nbsp;government spending helps the economy.&nbsp; 52% of voters now believe they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/taxes\/most_voters_say_they_pay_more_than_their_share_of_taxes_political_class_disagrees\" target=\"_self\">pay more than their fair share of taxes.<\/a> However, 54% of the Political Class disagree. <\/p>\n<p>If these statistics are accurate, the 2010 elections should be very interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s Rasmussen Reports, 77 % of American voters see unwillingness to cut government spending as a bigger problem than resistence to tax hikes!&nbsp; Just 28% of all voters say that increasing government spending will help the economy.&nbsp; Seventy-nine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=845\">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-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}