{"id":2450,"date":"2013-10-31T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2013-10-31T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T21:19:19","slug":"bulls-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"BULL&#8217;S EYE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sanders, <a href=\"   http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/opinion2\/279-82\/20166-budget-deal-must-be-morally-and-economically-sound\">via <\/a>Reader Supported News<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterestingly, the so-called congressional &#8216;deficit hawks&#8217; &#8212; Congressman Paul Ryan, Senator Jeff Sessions and other conservative Republicans &#8212; all voted for those measures that increased the deficit. These are the same folks who now want to dismantle virtually every social program designed to protect working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. In other words, it&#8217;s okay to spend trillions on a war we should never have waged and large defense budgets, and provide huge tax breaks for billionaires and multi-national corporations. It&#8217;s just not okay when, in very difficult economic times, we try to protect the most vulnerable people in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What I find astonishing is that by contrast to Sanders, the President refuses repeatedly to assign blame for the deficit where it actually belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sanders, via Reader Supported News \u201cInterestingly, the so-called congressional &#8216;deficit hawks&#8217; &#8212; Congressman Paul Ryan, Senator Jeff Sessions and other conservative Republicans &#8212; all voted for those measures that increased the deficit. These are the same folks who now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2450\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}