{"id":1541,"date":"2005-03-05T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T02:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-era-of-fiscal-conservatism-is-over\/"},"modified":"2005-03-05T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T02:33:18","slug":"the-era-of-fiscal-conservatism-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-era-of-fiscal-conservatism-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The era of fiscal conservatism is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"alibi . march 3 - 9, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alibi.com\/editorial\/section_display.php?di=2005-03-03&amp;scn=news&amp;scn_page_num=2#11097\">alibi . march 3 &#8211; 9, 2005<\/a><br \/>\nThe Death of Fiscal Conservatism<br \/>\nRepublicans can cut taxes. They just can&#8217;t stop spending.<br \/>\nBy Greg Payne<\/p>\n<p>The first three years of the Bush administration saw a 21 percent increase in non-defense spending &#8212; and that&#8217;s before the costs of the prescription drug benefit kick in. By contrast, Ronald Reagan oversaw a 6.8 percent increase during his first three years in office while that liberal scoundrel Bill Clinton had federal spending decrease 0.7 percent during a similar time frame. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There was a time once\u2014at least I think there was\u2014when the Republican Party honestly considered itself a political force for limited government and fiscal restraint. That&#8217;s what folks like Ronald Reagan said the party stood for, anyway. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The era of fiscal conservatism is over\u2014political bullshit &#8230; aside. Some might think that&#8217;s great news. But who would&#8217;ve thought a conservative approach to spending would be the one thing Republicans could actually manage to cut out of government?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alibi . march 3 &#8211; 9, 2005 The Death of Fiscal Conservatism Republicans can cut taxes. They just can&#8217;t stop spending. By Greg Payne The first three years of the Bush administration saw a 21 percent increase in non-defense spending &#8212; and that&#8217;s before the costs of the prescription drug benefit kick in. By contrast, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-era-of-fiscal-conservatism-is-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The era of fiscal conservatism is over<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}