{"id":967,"date":"2003-12-21T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2003-12-21T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-deficits\/"},"modified":"2003-12-21T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2003-12-21T18:13:18","slug":"bush-deficits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-deficits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Deficits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2001818017.jpg\" alt=\"graph of deficits\"\/><a title=\"Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Bush Goal on Deficit Draws Skepticism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,1282,-3519701,00.html\">Bush Goal on Deficit Draws Skepticism<\/a> By ALAN FRAM<\/p>\n<p>President Bush&#8217;s goal of cutting in half a projected $500 billion federal deficit within five years is being dismissed as too timid by conservatives, unachievable by analysts and laughable by Democrats. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The goal is backed by many Republicans, but <b>conservatives want a bolder move<\/b> against the record deficits and big spending increases the administration has run up. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It&#8217;s a rather anemic goal, actually,&#8221; said Stephen Moore, president of the conservative Club for Growth. &#8221;We should be talking about how to balance the budget.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Given the current makeup of Congress and the incumbent in the White House,&#8221; halving the red ink in half is &#8221;<b>fanciful<\/b>,&#8221; said Robert Reischauer, former Congressional Budget Office director and president of the Urban Institute. <\/p>\n<p>They also say <b>Bush&#8217;s goal distracts from the country&#8217;s real budgetary crisis<\/b>: the crunch that will occur at decade&#8217;s end when the aging baby boom generation begins relying on Social Security, Medicare and other programs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The smokescreen here is the short-term deficit,&#8221; said Robert Bixby, executive director of the bipartisan Concord Coalition, which lobbies for balanced budgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Goal on Deficit Draws Skepticism By ALAN FRAM President Bush&#8217;s goal of cutting in half a projected $500 billion federal deficit within five years is being dismissed as too timid by conservatives, unachievable by analysts and laughable by Democrats. &#8230; The goal is backed by many Republicans, but conservatives want a bolder move against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-deficits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush Deficits<\/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-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}