{"id":7068,"date":"2012-05-15T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2012-05-15T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:45:49","slug":"guess-which-of-these-causes-of-the-deficit-are-the-gops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7068","title":{"rendered":"Guess which of these causes of the deficit are the GOP&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/05\/obama-romney-deficit-debt-chart.php\">Most of them<\/a> &#8211; at least most of them that are continuing to aggravate it. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydish.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e20163058f224f970d-550wi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he main drivers of projected deficits over the next decade are the wars of the oughts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts and the so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153automatic stabilizers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d unemployment insurance spending, lower tax burdens \u00e2\u20ac\u201d built into existing policy to combat economic downturns. Recovery measures by Bush and Obama caused a short-term spike in deficits but have mostly phased out and thus represent only modest fractions of the national debt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of them &#8211; at least most of them that are continuing to aggravate it. [T]he main drivers of projected deficits over the next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-prez-race-2112"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068","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=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7070,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}