{"id":51204,"date":"2011-07-13T11:56:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/51204\/backs-poor-disabled-elderly\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T11:56:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:56:25","slug":"backs-poor-disabled-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/51204\/backs-poor-disabled-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Backs of the Poor, Disabled and Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already, even without the spending cuts proposed by Republicans, many people have to choose between food, utilities and medicine.  Many will die this summer because they cannot afford the cost of air conditioning in places of unbearable heat.  Many die each winter because they cannot afford the cost of keeping their homes warm.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the Republicans refuse to even consider increases taxes of those that can afford it.  They claim that these tax breaks are needed so jobs can be created.  Yes, jobs are being created in India, China, Korea, and other places around the world.  The  job increases in America is far below the unemployment rate (which is a fictional statistic that does not include many that are unemployed).  <\/p>\n<p>Now the Republicans plan to hold the American people hostage again in the battle with President Obama and the Democrats in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already, even without the spending cuts proposed by Republicans, many people have to choose between food, utilities and medicine. Many will die this summer because they cannot afford the cost of air conditioning in places of unbearable heat. Many die each winter because they cannot afford the cost of keeping their homes warm. And yet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,11,1428,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-life","category-people","category-politics-2","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51204","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=51204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}