{"id":68127,"date":"2011-10-19T00:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T04:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68127\/wanna-reduce-deficit\/"},"modified":"2011-10-19T00:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T04:20:32","slug":"wanna-reduce-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68127\/wanna-reduce-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"So you wanna reduce the deficit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A grand opportunity has just presented itself for Republicans to slash spending.\u00a0 Will they do it?\u00a0 Do they REALLY care about reducing spending, or are they just using it as an excuse to marginalize the poor and huddled masses?<\/font><\/p>\n

38 Congresscritters just drafted a letter to the supercommittee<\/a> in charge of deficit reduction calling for the end to the $122 Billion dollars the US pays out in oil subsidies.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cosigners are as follows:
\n1. Earl Blumenauer – Oregon (D)
\n2. Peter Welch – Vermont (D)
\n3. Raul M. Grijalva – Arizona (D)
\n4. Louis Capps – California (D)
\n5. Gwen Moore – Wisconsin (D)
\n6. Maurice D. Hinchey – New York (D)
\n7. Eleanor Holmes Norton – District of Columbia (D)
\n8. Lucille Roybal-Allard – California (D)
\n9. James P. McGovern – Massachusetts (D)
\n10. John Lewis – Georgia (D)
\n11. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. – Illinois (D)
\n12. Mazie K. Hirono – Hawaii (D)
\n13. Louis Slaughter – New York (D)
\n14. John Garamendi – California (D)
\n15. Paul Tonko – New York (D)
\n16. Micahel M. Honda – California (D)
\n17. Jackie Speier – California (D)
\n18. John Olver – Massachusetts (D)
\n19. Jared Polis – Colorado (D)
\n20. W.M. Lacy Clay – Missouri (D)
\n21. Alcee L. Hastings – Florida (D)
\n22. Jim Moran – Virginia (D)
\n23. Michael H. Michaud – Maine (D)
\n24. Mike Quigley – Illinois (D)
\n25. Steve Cohen – Tennessee (D)
\n26. Susan A. Davis – California (D)
\n27. Bob Filner – California (D)
\n28. Tim McDermott – Washington (D)
\n29. James R. Langevin – Rhode Island (D)
\n30. Judy Chu – California (D)
\n31. James A. Himes – Connecticut (D)
\n32. Frank Pallone, Jr. – New Jersey (D)
\n33. David N. Cicilline – Rhode Island (D)
\n34. David E. Price – North Carolina (D)
\n35. Chellie Pingree – Maine (D)
\n36. Rush D. Holt – New Jersey (D)
\n37. John Conyers, Jr. – Michigan (D)
\n38. Steven R. Rothman – New Jersey (D)<\/font><\/p>\n

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Considering $122 Billion is much more than the $420 million that Republicans wanted cut from public broadcasting, they should jump for joy over this.<\/font><\/p>\n

Well, that is if they aren’t just full of shit.
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A grand opportunity has just presented itself for Republicans to slash spending.\u00a0 Will they do it?\u00a0 Do they REALLY care about reducing spending, or are they just using it as an excuse to marginalize the poor and huddled masses? 38 Congresscritters just drafted a letter to the supercommittee in charge of deficit reduction calling for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68127","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=68127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}