{"id":2381,"date":"2004-07-27T21:47:39","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2004-07-27T21:47:39","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T01:47:39","slug":"apples-to-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/27\/apples-to-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Apples to Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/i> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/editorial\/issues.asp?v=7\/27\">article<\/a> comparing Bush&#8217;s first term with Clinton&#8217;s first term.<br \/>\nEven with 9\/11 (the excuse for Republican misstep), economically, Bush was better.<br \/>\nThe economy doesn&#8217;t suck, y&#8217;all.  Va. reported the other day the highest number of jobs <i><b>ever<\/b><\/i>.  The Democrats don&#8217;t necessarily do a better job with the economy.  The tax cuts did help things.  But really, any government effects on the economy are the responsibility of the Fed.  There&#8217;s not much the president and congress can do, despite their protestations otherwise.<br \/>\nI do still take issue with the enormous budget deficits run up by the Republicans.  Shuttup about 9\/11.  I understand that the Homeland Security reorganization is expensive.  But it doesn&#8217;t account for the other wasteful spending that&#8217;s occurred.  Funding old men&#8217;s Viagra doesn&#8217;t have a thing to do with national security or fighting terrorism.  Neither does a 50% increase in Federal education spending; that number should be zero &#8212; the feds shouldn&#8217;t be involved in education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily has an article comparing Bush&#8217;s first term with Clinton&#8217;s first term. Even with 9\/11 (the excuse for Republican misstep), economically, Bush was better. The economy doesn&#8217;t suck, y&#8217;all. Va. reported the other day the highest number of jobs ever. The Democrats don&#8217;t necessarily do a better job with the economy. The tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}