{"id":316509,"date":"2010-02-13T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2010-02-13T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T20:42:25","slug":"potus-says-paygo-is-%e2%80%9ccommon-sense-rule%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/316509","title":{"rendered":"POTUS Says PAYGO is \u201cCommon Sense Rule\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/02\/12\/weekly-address-pay-you-go\">weekly radio address<\/a>, President Obama said PAYGO is a &#8220;common sense rule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PAYGO, or Pay-as-you-go, requires Congress to pay for its spending, by cutting elsewhere in the budget or raising taxes.  The President, <a href=\"http:\/\/whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/02\/12\/president-obama-signs-debt-limit-pay-as-you-go-bill\/\">who signed the bill yesterday<\/a>, said PAYGO &#8220;helped lead to balanced budgets in the 1990s, by making clear that we could not increase entitlement spending or cut taxes simply by borrowing more money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have long opposed PAYGO because they say it enables lawmakers to increase taxes to fund more programs.  A spokesman for Representative Mike Pence (R-IN) tells Fox that the Congressman believes PAYGO means \u201cYou pay, the Democrats go on spending.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in his weekly radio address, President Obama said PAYGO is a &#8220;common sense rule.&#8221; PAYGO, or Pay-as-you-go, requires Congress to pay for its spending, by cutting elsewhere in the budget or raising taxes. The President, who signed the bill yesterday, said PAYGO &#8220;helped lead to balanced budgets in the 1990s, by making clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316509","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\/5729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}