{"id":8067,"date":"2012-03-03T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2012-03-03T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:54:04","slug":"how-should-america-cut-its-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8067","title":{"rendered":"How should America cut its deficit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget recently published an overview of the budget proposals of the four \u201cmajor\u201d Republican candidates and, in a separate report, examined the latest Obama budget. ..\u00a0And here\u2019s what it tells us: According to an \u201cintermediate debt scenario,\u201d the budget proposals of Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney would all lead to much higher debt a decade from now than the proposals in the 2013 Obama budget. Ron Paul would do better, roughly matching Mr. Obama. But if you look at the details, it turns out that Mr. Paul is assuming trillions of dollars in unspecified and implausible spending cuts. So, in the end, he\u2019s really a spendthrift, too.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Extract from recent \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/02\/opinion\/krugman-four-fiscal-phonies.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">&#8220;New York Times&#8221; column<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Krugman\">Paul Krugman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget recently published an overview of the budget proposals of the four \u201cmajor\u201d Republican candidates and, in a separate report, examined the latest Obama budget. ..\u00a0And here\u2019s what it tells us: According to an \u201cintermediate debt scenario,\u201d the budget proposals of Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8070,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions\/8070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}