{"id":11302,"date":"2011-01-15T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11302\/economic-times\/"},"modified":"2011-01-15T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T17:05:40","slug":"economic-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11302\/economic-times\/","title":{"rendered":"In These Trying Economic Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these trying economic times our politicians tell us we need to chop budgets to get the deficit under control.\u00a0 They do this by chopping away at &#8220;Entitlement Programs&#8221;.\u00a0 You know those programs that affect the lives of the powerless, children, elderly, disabled,\u00a0 and anyone that falls below the poverty level.<\/p>\n<p>These programs are under funded to begin with.\u00a0 The amount of savings don&#8217;t even chip away at the tip of the iceberg of deficit spending.\u00a0 Why don&#8217;t these politicians look into the high budget spending to save more money.\u00a0 Why can&#8217;t we wait until the economy is better to build a couple new jet fighters, warships, etc.\u00a0 Why do we hold sacred spending that only enriches those that do not need our help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these trying economic times our politicians tell us we need to chop budgets to get the deficit under control.\u00a0 They do this by chopping away at &#8220;Entitlement Programs&#8221;.\u00a0 You know those programs that affect the lives of the powerless, children, elderly, disabled,\u00a0 and anyone that falls below the poverty level. These programs are under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","category-other","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}