{"id":24570,"date":"2011-02-15T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_evan_newmark-mean_street_obamas_budget_cant_save_america\/"},"modified":"2011-02-15T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T22:22:58","slug":"wsj_evan_newmark-mean_street_obamas_budget_cant_save_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24570","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Evan Newmark&#8211;Mean Street: Obama\u2019s Budget Can\u2019t Save America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if Mr. Obama is at all embarrassed by the 2012 budget. Like his previous two budgets, this one breaks all those \u201cMorning in America\u201d\u009d campaign promises of a \u201cnew\u201d\u009d Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 budget also is a repudiation of the findings of his very own bipartisan deficit commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Bowles-Simpson commission had plenty of sensible recommendations, like cutting funds for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, eliminating the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and raising the qualifying age for Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>But you\u2019ll find precious little of this in the 2012 budget. At the White House, political sense apparently matters a lot more than common sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2011\/02\/14\/mean-street-without-obama-only-the-bond-market-can-save-america\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if Mr. Obama is at all embarrassed by the 2012 budget. Like his previous two budgets, this one breaks all those \u201cMorning in America\u201d\u009d campaign promises of a \u201cnew\u201d\u009d Washington. The 2012 budget also is a repudiation of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24570\">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":[40,50,209,670,595,592,149,617,151,618,673,587,669,584,672,668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc","category-treasury-secretary-timothy-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24570","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=24570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}