{"id":1135,"date":"2012-06-20T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2012-06-20T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:08:32","slug":"deficit-fetishism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/deficit-fetishism\/","title":{"rendered":"Deficit fetishism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Part of &#8216;Austerity Isn&#8217;t Working&#8217; Don&#8217;t People Get?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/national-affairs\/what-part-of-austerity-isnt-working-dont-people-get-20120617\">http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/national-affairs\/what-part-of-austerity-isnt-working-dont-people-get-20120617<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ties back well with my post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/06\/why-the-rich-dont-care-about-a-robust-economy\/\">Why the rich don\u2019t care about a robust economy<\/a>&#8220;, the people most clamoring for austerity are the people least likely to be affected by it.  It would be amusing if it weren&#8217;t so pivotal to the health of our country, but this is why I get so upset about the direction our country is going (down in to the toilet, faster and faster we go).  It is OK for the rich to get borrowed money that the middle class taxpayer has to repay, but damned if the oligarchy will stand idly by and let the middle class taxpayer benefit from borrowed money he has to pay back!<\/p>\n<p>It is so simple and crystal clear to me: spend money like water during bad economic times (even looted money gets spent!), then pay it all back during the good times.  Why is that so damn hard to understand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Part of &#8216;Austerity Isn&#8217;t Working&#8217; Don&#8217;t People Get? http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/national-affairs\/what-part-of-austerity-isnt-working-dont-people-get-20120617 This ties back well with my post on &#8220;Why the rich don\u2019t care about a robust economy&#8220;, the people most clamoring for austerity are the people least likely to be affected by it. It would be amusing if it weren&#8217;t so pivotal to the health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/deficit-fetishism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deficit fetishism&#8221;<\/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":[14,19,16,3,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}