{"id":208703,"date":"2010-01-21T07:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/21\/consequences-of-irresponsible-spending\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:37:31","slug":"consequences-of-irresponsible-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/208703","title":{"rendered":"Consequences of Irresponsible Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/01\/20\/consequences_of_irresponsible_spending_228059.html\" >Consequences of Irresponsible Spending \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Richard Rahn, Washington Times<br \/>PoliticsDems vow to press ahead on health carePoliticsBrown defeats Coakley in Mass. Senate raceWorldChina removed as top priority for spiesPoliticsTough reviews for Obama&apos;s first yearPoliticsObama takes populist tack to buttress DemocratsWorldFrance likely to sell warship to MoscowWorldIran rejects plan to ship uranium abroadWednesday, January 20, 2010Rate this storyAverage 5.00after 1 votes Login or register to rate this storyBy Richard W. Rahn &#8220;So what?&#8221; is the implicit expression of much of the Washington political class when it comes to spending and taxing. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/20\/the_idea_is_the_problem_99966.html\" >Democrats Lost the Health Care Debate \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> David Harsanyi, Denver Post<br \/>Generally speaking, would you favor smaller government with fewer services or larger government with more services?Fifty-eight percent of those polled by The Washington Post recently claimed they preferred smaller government with fewer services, with only 38 percent favoring a larger government with more services (and, yes, it is a terrific struggle not to place ironic quotations marks around the word &#8220;services&#8221;). Receive news alertsThis is the highest number for the &#8220;smaller government&#8221; category since 2002. And a full year into President Barack Obama&apos;s term, most&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/20\/mass_win_ripples_through_other_blue_state_races_99969.html\" >Win Sends Shock Waves Through Blue-State Races \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Kyle Trygstad, RCP<br \/>Just two people &#8212; John F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy &#8212; had been elected in the last 58 years to the Massachusetts Senate seat Republican Scott Brown won yesterday. The seat&apos;s legacy and Democrats&apos; dominance in the state were no match, however, for the lethal mix of Brown&apos;s message and a poorly run campaign by Democrat Martha Coakley, as well as a shifting public mood.The upset, which political analyst Stuart Rothenberg called the biggest of his adult life, follows Republican wins in the New Jersey and Virginia governor&apos;s races last year &#8212; all three states voted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consequences of Irresponsible Spending Richard Rahn, Washington TimesPoliticsDems vow to press ahead on health carePoliticsBrown defeats Coakley in Mass. Senate raceWorldChina removed as top priority for spiesPoliticsTough reviews for Obama&apos;s first yearPoliticsObama takes populist tack to buttress DemocratsWorldFrance likely to sell warship to MoscowWorldIran rejects plan to ship uranium abroadWednesday, January 20, 2010Rate this storyAverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}