{"id":287935,"date":"2010-02-06T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32267"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:19:26","slug":"americans-reject-keynesian-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287935","title":{"rendered":"Americans reject Keynesian economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug.Bach<\/p>\n<p>This is promising news from the <a href=\"http:\/\/illinoisreview.typepad.com\/illinoisreview\/2010\/02\/americans-reject-keynesian-economics.html\">Illinois Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/general_business\/february_2010\/americans_reject_keynesian_economics\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a> that few Americans agree that increasing national debt is the way to make the nation&#8217;s economy stronger:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>While influential 20th Century economist John Maynard Keynes would say it&#8217;s best to increase deficit spending in tough economic times, only 11% of American adults agree and think the nation needs to increase its deficit spending at this time. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% disagree and say it would be better to cut the deficit. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> In fact, 59% think Keynes had it backwards and that increasing the deficit at this time would hurt the economy rather than help.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> To help the economy, most Americans (56%) believe that cutting the deficit is the way to go.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> Eighty-three percent (83%) of Americans, in fact, say the <a href=\"http:\/\/illinoisreview.typepad.com\/public_content\/business\/general_business\/february_2010\/83_blame_deficit_on_politicians_unwillingness_to_cut_spending\">size of the federal budget deficit <\/a>is due more to the unwillingness of politicians to cut government spending than to the reluctance of taxpayers to pay more in taxes. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe Republicans should begin referring to Democrats as &#8220;Keynesian liberals&#8221;?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug.Bach This is promising news from the Illinois Review: Rasmussen Reports that few Americans agree that increasing national debt is the way to make the nation&#8217;s economy stronger: While influential 20th Century economist John Maynard Keynes would say it&#8217;s best to increase deficit spending in tough economic times, only 11% of American adults agree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287935","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\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}