{"id":643579,"date":"2013-02-22T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=505f14b8eb90bcfd169f79c9c4fcb95d"},"modified":"2013-02-22T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:21:14","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-fulfilling-our-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643579","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Up: &#8220;Fulfilling Our Obligations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=rQf5a-E0PUQ\">Watch the West Wing Week here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sequester Looming: On Tuesday, with just days left until a set of deep, across-the-board budget cuts are set to take effect, President Obama discussed what&rsquo;s at stake for our country&rsquo;s economy, security and future and pushed lawmakers to work out a deal for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So these cuts are not smart. They are not fair. They will hurt our economy. They will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls,&rdquo; said President Obama, as emergency respondents stood behind him. &ldquo;This is not an abstraction &#8212; people will lose their jobs. The unemployment rate might tick up again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/balanced-plan-avert-sequester-and-reduce-deficit\">The President called for &ldquo;a balanced approach to deficit reduction,&rdquo; which ends tax loopholes and deductions for the wealthy, while targeting wasteful spending in the process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Giving Every Child a Chance: Last Friday, President Obama headed home to Chicago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/16\/giving-every-child-chance-life\">to promote his proposals from the State of the Union address<\/a> and emphasized the importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/preventing-gun-violence\">protecting our children from gun violence<\/a>, illustrating the importance of family in our communities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And so that means that this is not just a gun issue. It&rsquo;s also an issue of the kinds of communities that we&rsquo;re building. And for that, we all share a responsibility, as citizens, to fix it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/weekly-wrap-fulfilling-our-obligations\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the West Wing Week here. Sequester Looming: On Tuesday, with just days left until a set of deep, across-the-board budget cuts are set to take effect, President Obama discussed what&rsquo;s at stake for our country&rsquo;s economy, security and future and pushed lawmakers to work out a deal for the American people. &ldquo;So these cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643579","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\/7329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}