{"id":306722,"date":"2010-02-11T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76349"},"modified":"2010-02-11T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T13:55:35","slug":"angry-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306722","title":{"rendered":"Angry Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No shocker here: People are mad at Washington. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/10\/AR2010021004708.html\" >The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two-thirds of Americans are &#8220;dissatisfied&#8221; or downright &#8220;angry&#8221; about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar they send to Washington is &#8220;wasted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Disappointingly, the pollsters didn&#8217;t ask specifically which party respondents blame for the government&#8217;s perceived failures. Unless there&#8217;s been some strange break from recent public perception, though, odds are the discontent is being aimed at <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74823\/the-new-taint-of-incumbency\" >incumbents in general<\/a>, not any one party in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No shocker here: People are mad at Washington. From The Washington Post: Two-thirds of Americans are &#8220;dissatisfied&#8221; or downright &#8220;angry&#8221; about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar they send to Washington is &#8220;wasted.&#8221; Disappointingly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306722","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}