{"id":119,"date":"2010-10-10T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-10-10T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:01:08","slug":"the-anti-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"The anti-stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ezra Klein<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is now impeding an economic recovery. But it&#8217;s not for  the reasons you often hear. It&#8217;s not because of debt or because of  taxes. Nor has it scared the private sector into timidity. It&#8217;s because,  at the state and local level, it&#8217;s firing people. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The  government can, if it&#8217;s willing to run deficits, keep those workers  employed. But Senate Republicans, alongside some conservative Democrats,  have decided to make the government pro-cyclical: Rather than fighting  the downturn in the business cycle, the government is now accelerating  it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ezra Klein &#8220;The government is now impeding an economic recovery. But it&#8217;s not for the reasons you often hear. It&#8217;s not because of debt or because of taxes. Nor has it scared the private sector into timidity. It&#8217;s because, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=119\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}