{"id":25890,"date":"2011-04-28T01:46:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T01:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_newspaper_editorial-tough_fiscal_talk_is_cheap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T01:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T01:46:31","slug":"local_newspaper_editorial-tough_fiscal_talk_is_cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25890","title":{"rendered":"Local Newspaper Editorial&#8211;Tough fiscal talk is cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;while President Obama has presided over an unprecedented federal spending spree, he&#8217;s far from the first White House occupant to run up big debt numbers while insisting that he&#8217;s moving toward lowering them &#8212; eventually.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also not the first politician caught between contradictory public demands of lower spending and higher benefits. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week reports that 78 percent of Americans oppose cutting Medicare spending, and 69 percent oppose cutting Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even most liberal Democrats, including the president, concede this indisputable point: America&#8217;s long-term debt crisis will never be solved without containing the soaring costs of Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/26\/tough-fiscal-talk-is-cheap\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;while President Obama has presided over an unprecedented federal spending spree, he&#8217;s far from the first White House occupant to run up big debt numbers while insisting that he&#8217;s moving toward lowering them &#8212; eventually. He&#8217;s also not the first<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25890\">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":[40,670,595,592,149,617,616,151,667,618,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890","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=25890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}