{"id":90032,"date":"2013-05-22T12:42:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=90032"},"modified":"2013-05-22T12:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:42:58","slug":"damn-socialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/damn-socialists\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Socialists!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/22\/bernanke-unemployment-government-austerity_n_3319890.html?utm_hp_ref=business\" style=\"line-height: 21px;\">Bernanke Tells Congress Fighting Unemployment Is A Better Cure For Government Debt Than Austerity<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 21px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Federal Reserve chairman, in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Wednesday, suggested that ending the nations long-term unemployment crisis would be a more effective way of shrinking government deficits and debt than the austerity cocktail funneled down our throats by Congress and the White House in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe loss of output and earnings associated with high unemployment \u2026 reduces government revenues and increases spending on income-support programs, thereby leading to larger budget deficits and higher levels of public debt than would otherwise occur,\u201d Bernanke said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of doing anything about unemployment, which hovers at 7.5 percent four years after the end of the Great Recession, Congress and the White House have spent the past two years finding diabolically creative new ways to slash government spending. That has worsened the unemployment crisis, making Bernankes job harder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you\u2019re trying to tell me that our Government is supposed to <em>HELP<\/em> the people of America instead of <em>HURT<\/em> them?<\/p>\n<p>Crazy talk\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernanke Tells Congress Fighting Unemployment Is A Better Cure For Government Debt Than Austerity The Federal Reserve chairman, in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Wednesday, suggested that ending the nations long-term unemployment crisis would be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/damn-socialists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}