{"id":3588,"date":"2010-09-23T07:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2010-09-23T07:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:26:35","slug":"when-reciting-the-pledge-with-america-place-your-hand-over-your-wallet-with-pious-solemnity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/09\/23\/when-reciting-the-pledge-with-america-place-your-hand-over-your-wallet-with-pious-solemnity\/","title":{"rendered":"When reciting the Pledge to America, place your hand over your wallet, with pious solemnity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/09\/the-pledge-for-america\/\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps the most telling thing about where the modern conservative movement is now, however, is their pledge on spending which says that \u201cwith common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans, and our troops we will roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels.\u201d Of course once you except Social Security, Medicare, and defense from cuts you\u2019re talking about not touching the government\u2019s three largest programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Instead it\u2019s a plan that says we\u2019ll cut spending on children, the poor, and the next generation\u2019s infrastructure in order to ensure that taxes can be cut on the rich while protecting our own base constituencies\u2014old people, defense contractors, veterans\u2014from the scythe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias: Perhaps the most telling thing about where the modern conservative movement is now, however, is their pledge on spending which says that \u201cwith common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans, and our troops we will roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels.\u201d Of course once you except Social Security, Medicare, and defense from cuts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}