{"id":8107,"date":"2009-02-23T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2009-02-23T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T23:49:20","slug":"obama-to-halve-deficit-by-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8107","title":{"rendered":"Obama to halve deficit by 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been to one of those department stores which claim they&#8217;re selling merchandise at half off, but when you get there you discover that they increased the prices the week before so they could charge you regular prices as &#8220;half off&#8221;. I think we just saw the same trick played on us on a national scale;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cut-deficit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cut-deficit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cut-deficit\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cut-deficit.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cut-deficit-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHow hard will it be to halve the deficit when it just exploded last week? Of course Obama blames Bush for the problem;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This administration inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit, the largest in our nation&#8217;s history, and our investments to rescue our economy will add to that deficit in the short term,&#8221; Obama told the gathering at the White House. &#8220;We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then why did he just double that deficit?<\/p>\n<p>I heard this same kind of talk in 1993 just before we got slapped with the largest tax hike in history. When the Clinton Administration decided that the rich included Social Security recipients and anyone that had a job. We&#8217;re all about to discover that we&#8217;re Joe Biden&#8217;s kind of patriots &#8211; those who pay their taxes and shut up about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been to one of those department stores which claim they&#8217;re selling merchandise at &hellip; <a title=\"Obama to halve deficit by 2012\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8107\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama to halve deficit by 2012<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,47,5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-liberals-suck","category-politics","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}