{"id":497,"date":"2006-07-25T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T01:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2017-03-03T21:56:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:56:15","slug":"100-words-for-the-strib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"100 words for the Strib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib asked me to tell them in 100 words or less what I would do about the one issue that is most important to me. This is what I told them in 99 words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic\">&#8220;Congress has been so busy waging partisan warefare that it has allowed the national deficit to spin out of control. At ten trillion dollars it will put a monstrous burden on our children just when they have to face competition with the dynamic economies of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic\">China<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic\">India<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic\">. This burden is just one of many accumulating for the next generation including lost health insurance, abandoned pension plans, and a shaky social security system. As a member of the Duluth School Board I devoted myself to keeping our district&#8217;s spending in line. I would do the same as a congressman.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><\/p>\n<p \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib asked me to tell them in 100 words or less what I would do about the one issue that is most important&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21043,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/21043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}