{"id":27399,"date":"2011-07-22T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_century_editorial-a_time_to_spend\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:00:10","slug":"christian_century_editorial-a_time_to_spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27399","title":{"rendered":"Christian Century Editorial&#8211;A time to spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In short, to revive jobs and the economy, the federal government needs to do the opposite of what families should do in hard times: spend more money.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that doing this would increase the deficit, and it&#8217;s true that budget deficits ultimately need to be faced. But the deficit problem is far less urgent than most elected officials are letting on. In this weak economy with high un\u00c2\u00ademployment, the deficit is a long-term problem, not a short-term one. The immediate issue is unemployment\u201d\u201da problem that calls for spending, not austerity. Along with improving people&#8217;s lives, more jobs mean a more robust economy\u201d\u201dwhich will ultimately do more to reduce the deficit than anything else will.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2011-07\/time-spend\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short, to revive jobs and the economy, the federal government needs to do the opposite of what families should do in hard times: spend more money. It&#8217;s true that doing this would increase the deficit, and it&#8217;s true that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27399\">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":[39,40,670,582,589,149,168,617,597,675,616,151,667,108,618,673,596,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-senate","category-social-security","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27399","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=27399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}