{"id":681075,"date":"2010-03-03T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:20:44","slug":"balancing-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681075","title":{"rendered":"Balancing the budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/84579-blue-dogs-offer-balanced-budget-amendment\">Blue Dog Democrats<\/a> have introduced an amendment to balance the federal budget by 2020. How that might happen, they don&#8217;t say. To get an idea just how tough that would be, look at Republican U.S.Representative Paul Ryan&#8217;s Roadmap for America&#8217;s Future. It gets the budget in balance without raising taxes by huge entitlement spending cuts. In 2020, his plan would produce deficits of close to 4 percent of GDP &#8212; and rising. His first balanced budget doesn&#8217;t arrive until 2063.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Dog Democrats have introduced an amendment to balance the federal budget by 2020. How that might happen, they don&#8217;t say. To get an idea just how tough that would be, look at Republican U.S.Representative Paul Ryan&#8217;s Roadmap for America&#8217;s Future. It gets the budget in balance without raising taxes by huge entitlement spending cuts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rb5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}