{"id":27329,"date":"2011-07-18T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_across_the_nation_budget_talks_stir_pessimism\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:31:20","slug":"ny_times_across_the_nation_budget_talks_stir_pessimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27329","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Across the Nation, Budget Talks Stir Pessimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a quick, informal selection of voices from across the country over the weekend found both pessimism and cynicism about the state of negotiations in Washington, resignation about the partisan jousting and more confusion than conniption about what exactly will happen if the president and his Republican opponents cannot make a deal to raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>And neither side, they say, looks good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all boneheads,\u201d\u009d said Steve Ruzika, 55, an entrepreneur from Boca Raton, Fla., who added that while he is politically conservative, he is fed up with both ends of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been brewing for a long time,\u201d\u009d Mr. Ruzika said. \u201cThey should have solved it before now.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/18\/us\/18voices.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a quick, informal selection of voices from across the country over the weekend found both pessimism and cynicism about the state of negotiations in Washington, resignation about the partisan jousting and more confusion than conniption about what exactly will happen<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27329\">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":[40,670,582,589,149,617,675,616,151,667,618,673,587,596,669,584,672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27329","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-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329","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=27329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}