{"id":4339,"date":"2015-10-15T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2015-10-15T23:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T03:58:36","slug":"well-frees-money-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4339","title":{"rendered":"WELL, AT LEAST IT FREES UP MORE MONEY FOR WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Karlin at Truthout describes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/buzzflash\/commentary\/seniors-will-be-hurt-by-not-receiving-a-benefit-increase-this-year\">skewed <\/a>calculations that produced a zero cost-of- living increase in Social Security&#8211;depriving 70 million Americans.<\/p>\n<p>By his own admission, Obama has wanted to cut Social Security&#8211;the euphemism is &#8220;reform&#8221;&#8211;since before he took office.\u00a0 Perhaps this is the stealth way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Announced almost to the day that he told us we&#8217;re not going anywhere in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Karlin at Truthout describes the skewed calculations that produced a zero cost-of- living increase in Social Security&#8211;depriving 70 million Americans. By his own admission, Obama has wanted to cut Social Security&#8211;the euphemism is &#8220;reform&#8221;&#8211;since before he took office.\u00a0 Perhaps &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4339\">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-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","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=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}