{"id":9804,"date":"2008-11-26T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_switch_obama_emphasizes_belt_tightening\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:01:31","slug":"in_switch_obama_emphasizes_belt_tightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9804","title":{"rendered":"In switch, Obama emphasizes belt-tightening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Obama wants America to know he is not just about spending money.<\/p>\n<p>Once the economy starts growing again \u201d\u201c his first priority \u201d\u201c he will get out the knife and start to cut programs that have &#8220;outlived their usefulness.&#8221; In short, he wants to also be known as a budget reformer.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference Tuesday, Mr. Obama characterized trimming federal programs as &#8220;not an option; it&#8217;s a necessity.&#8221; He promised that Peter Orszag, whom he has picked to run the Office of Management and Budget, will go through the $2.9 trillion US budget line by line, page by page, looking for better and less expensive ways to do things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1126\/p25s11-usgn.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Obama wants America to know he is not just about spending money. Once the economy starts growing again \u201d\u201c his first priority \u201d\u201c he will get out the knife and start to cut programs that have &#8220;outlived their usefulness.&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9804\">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":[40,149,151,596,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","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=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}