{"id":11479,"date":"2009-02-27T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_brings_back_era_of_big_government\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T11:03:19","slug":"obama_brings_back_era_of_big_government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11479","title":{"rendered":"Obama brings back era of big government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton declared more than a decade ago &#8220;the era of big government is over.&#8221; With his new budget, President Barack Obama has brought it back.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s $3.55 trillion budget proposal represents a gamble that Americans are ready for the sort of change they embraced by electing him in November, including a tax increase on Americans making more than $250,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>He proposes expansion of spending on the U.S. healthcare system, on greater energy independence and on education, hoping Americans weary of paying for a raft of expensive bailouts for banks and the car industry will go along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE51P73W20090226?sp=true\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton declared more than a decade ago &#8220;the era of big government is over.&#8221; With his new budget, President Barack Obama has brought it back. Obama&#8217;s $3.55 trillion budget proposal represents a gamble that Americans are ready for the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11479\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,616,151,667,583,586,596,598,594,584,668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-2009-obama-administration-bank-bailout-plan","category-the-2009-obama-administration-housing-amelioration-plan","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-possibility-of-a-bailout-for-the-u-s-auto-industry","category-the-september-2008-proposed-henry-paulson-700-billion-bailout-package","category-the-u-s-government","category-treasury-secretary-timothy-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}