{"id":4304,"date":"2011-10-22T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/an-insurance-company-with-an-army\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T20:18:54","slug":"an-insurance-company-with-an-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/an-insurance-company-with-an-army\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;an insurance company with an army&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/22\/an-insurance-company-with-an-army-2\/\">An Insurance Company With An Army &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> by Paul Krugman<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[T]his seems like a good time to repeat, once again, the truth about federal spending: Your federal government is basically an insurance company with an army. The vast bulk of its spending goes to the big five: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, and interest on the debt. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>[I]f you want smaller government, either you\u2019re talking about cuts in the big five, <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">or you have no idea what you\u2019re talking about<\/font>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/22\/an-insurance-company-with-an-army-2\/\">An Insurance Company With An Army &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> [hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmexiken.com\/\">NewMexiKen<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Insurance Company With An Army &#8211; NYTimes.com by Paul Krugman [T]his seems like a good time to repeat, once again, the truth about federal spending: Your federal government is basically an insurance company with an army. The vast bulk of its spending goes to the big five: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, and interest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/an-insurance-company-with-an-army\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;an insurance company with an army&rdquo;<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","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=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}