{"id":3679,"date":"2011-05-24T23:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2011-05-24T23:49:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:49:38","slug":"it-will-be-a-shame-if-democrats-take-control-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"It will be a shame if Democrats take control again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;by running a campaign to reassure the American public that there is no need to worry about Social Security and Medicare That&#8217;s because the American public is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hjmjquEqtvkSVuiCtkIQFubMdkmA?docId=a8bff55d479245b995be1192376dbf64\"> dead wrong<\/a> about the nation&#8217;s fiscal future. Only a huge tax increase or cuts in Medicare and Social Security could prop up these programs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the poll, 54 percent said it&#8217;s possible to balance the budget without cutting spending for Medicare, and 59 percent said the same about Social Security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;by running a campaign to reassure the American public that there is no need to worry about Social Security and Medicare That&#8217;s because the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}