{"id":24806,"date":"2011-02-28T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/erskine_bowles_and_alan_simpson-congress_the_president_need_to_step_up_to_\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:31:34","slug":"erskine_bowles_and_alan_simpson-congress_the_president_need_to_step_up_to_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24806","title":{"rendered":"Erskine Bowles \u201d\u00a8and Alan Simpson&#8211;Congress, the president need to step up to painful choices ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president is right \u201d\u201d if America is to be competitive in this new knowledge-based global economy, we must invest in education, infrastructure and high-value-added research in a fiscally responsible manner.<\/p>\n<p>But House Republicans are also right \u201d\u201d spending is out of control, and there is no way possible to address our burgeoning debt without real spending cuts. That means finding ways to make government perform more efficiently, while scaling back or even eliminating certain government functions altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Yet by focusing primarily on domestic discretionary spending, neither plan goes at all far enough to deal with our medium- or long-term fiscal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>With the Fiscal Commission, we spent 10 months closely studying the cold, hard facts. Together, <b>we came to the unavoidable conclusions that the problem is real, the solution will be painful, there is no easy way out and everything must be on the table<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/special-reports\/the-budget-february-2011\/144647-congress-the-president-need-to-step-up-to-painful-choices-ahead-on-budget\">Read it all<\/a> (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president is right \u201d\u201d if America is to be competitive in this new knowledge-based global economy, we must invest in education, infrastructure and high-value-added research in a fiscally responsible manner. But House Republicans are also right \u201d\u201d spending is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24806\">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":[40,670,582,589,149,617,616,151,667,618,587,596,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806","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=24806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}