{"id":4682,"date":"2012-03-21T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2012-03-21T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:00:32","slug":"paul-ryan-is-still-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4682","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan is still an idiot&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just a short one on the new budget plan that ole Paul has put forth&#8230;I&#8217;m not going to bog you down with all of the numbers but just the two that define this mess that continues the repubs war on the middle class and poor&#8230;.5.3 trillion dollars in cuts to programs for the poor and middle class&#8230;including gutting Medicare and social security&#8230;and guess who gets tax cuts? I&#8217;m sure you guessed it&#8230;the rich will get 4.3 billion in tax cuts&#8230;so, what this idiot has just said that we are no longer even going to pretend that we give a damn about anyone but the rich&#8230;and he justifies it by saying that anything that benefits the less fortunate will just take away their incentive to work and get ahead&#8230;never mind that the rich and corporations get much more in subsidies every year&#8230;does that mean that corporations will no longer have incentive to compete since they are getting corporate welfare? Oh, no&#8230;.corporations are different since they are &#8220;job creators&#8221; so the rules don&#8217;t apply&#8230;.as they don&#8217;t to the 1%&#8230;how did we get here? I am losing hope for our country if guys like this are allowed to stay in power&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just a short one on the new budget plan that ole Paul has put forth&#8230;I&#8217;m not going to bog you down with all of the numbers but just the two that define this mess that continues the repubs war on the middle class and poor&#8230;.5.3 trillion dollars in cuts to programs for the poor and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paul Ryan is still an idiot&#8230;<\/span> <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":[10],"tags":[402,399],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-budget","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}