{"id":326396,"date":"2010-02-16T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/16\/presidents-day-congress-meddling-on-display\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T07:31:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T12:31:30","slug":"presidents-day-congress%e2%80%99-meddling-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326396","title":{"rendered":"Presidents Day: Congress\u2019 Meddling on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/15\/presidents_day_congress039_meddling_on_display_229504.html\" >Presidents Day: Congress&#8217; Meddling on Display \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Johanna Neuman, LAT<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/15\/the_making_of_a_euromess_229471.html\" >The Making of a Euromess \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Paul Krugman, New York Times<br \/>Lately, financial news has been dominated by reports from Greece and other nations on the European periphery. And rightly so.Paul Krugman But I&apos;ve been troubled by reporting that focuses almost exclusively on European debts and deficits, conveying the impression that it&apos;s all about government profligacy &quot;&rdquo; and feeding into the narrative of our own deficit hawks, who want to slash spending even in the face of mass unemployment, and hold Greece up as an object lesson of what will happen if we don&apos;t. For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn&apos;t the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/15\/big_government_not_a_solution_229509.html\" >Big Government Not a Solution \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> John Stossel, FOX Business<br \/>February 15, 2010 09:52 AM EST by John StosselThis month&apos;s Atlantic cover story makes dire predictions&#194;&#160; about the impact of the recession:It will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults&#8230; It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities. It may already be plunging many inner cities into a despair not seen for decades. Ultimately, it is likely to warp our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years to come.The dreary article quotes nearly every liberal economist and concludes that because we are in &#8220;such a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents Day: Congress&#8217; Meddling on Display Johanna Neuman, LAT The Making of a Euromess Paul Krugman, New York TimesLately, financial news has been dominated by reports from Greece and other nations on the European periphery. And rightly so.Paul Krugman But I&apos;ve been troubled by reporting that focuses almost exclusively on European debts and deficits, conveying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326396","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=326396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}