{"id":47864,"date":"2021-05-02T21:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47864"},"modified":"2021-05-02T21:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T21:23:25","slug":"now-the-deficit-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47864","title":{"rendered":"Now the deficit matters?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/budget-deficit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29090\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/budget-deficit-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/budget-deficit-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/budget-deficit.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listening to Republican members of Congress bitch about the possibility of running up the federal budget deficit because a <em>Democratic<\/em> president wants to invest in our infrastructure makes me want to laugh, scream and cry &#8230; all at once!<\/p>\n<p>Only now does the ostensible party of fiscal restraint choose to raise its voice against the cost of infrastructure overhaul. <em>Puh-leeze.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Biden is planning this week to meet with Republican congressional leaders to seek a compromise. Biden wants to spend $2.2 trillion on various projects including infrastructure; the GOP has come back with a $568 billion proposal that focuses more intently on roads, bridges, airports, ship channels &#8230; those kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s a big gap. The GOP is yammering about deficit spending after approving a big tax break for rich Americans when Donald Trump was president. The tax cut helped run up the deficit and, of course, the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>Where was the outrage then? Hmm. I heard them crickets, man.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope President Biden can bring his immense negotiating skills to bear when he meets with his Republican friends. I also hope he can persuade them of the importance of employing government to work for the people who pay for it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Listening to Republican members of Congress bitch about the possibility of running up the federal budget deficit because a Democratic president wants to invest in our infrastructure makes me want to laugh, scream and cry &#8230; all at once! Only now does the ostensible party of fiscal restraint choose to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now the deficit matters?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[775,2505,3197],"class_list":["post-47864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-budget-deficit","tag-joe-biden","tag-national-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47865,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47864\/revisions\/47865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}