{"id":37619,"date":"2022-10-25T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37619"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:25:15","slug":"stuck-in-an-ancient-rut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/10\/25\/stuck-in-an-ancient-rut\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck In An Ancient Rut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re not paying attention to the financial metrics of the political parties and are just assuming that Republicans are right when they assert that Democrats are spendthrifts, Steve Benen has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/new-data-shows-biden-delivering-deficit-reduction-boast-rcna53965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative chart<\/a> for you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deficit-7a479f.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37620\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deficit-7a479f.jpg?resize=560%2C324&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deficit-7a479f.jpg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deficit-7a479f.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deficit-7a479f.jpg?resize=150%2C87&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deficit-7a479f.jpg?resize=250%2C145&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right. For the last half a century, the Democrats have to clean up the Republicans&#8217; financial messes.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s something to keep in mind two years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, go ahead and scream. Two years ahead is too much just now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re not paying attention to the financial metrics of the political parties and are just assuming that Republicans are right when they assert that Democrats are spendthrifts, Steve Benen has a restorative chart for you: Yes, that&#8217;s right. For the last half a century, the Democrats have to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/10\/25\/stuck-in-an-ancient-rut\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37621,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619\/revisions\/37621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}