{"id":15924,"date":"2012-12-31T07:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=15924"},"modified":"2012-12-31T07:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T13:52:55","slug":"if-you-do-one-thing-today-write-congress-to-support-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=15924","title":{"rendered":"If You Do One Thing Today, Write Congress to Support Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/find\/\">Write your senators and congressmen<\/a> to let them know you oppose any &#8220;Fiscal Cliff&#8221; deal that doesn&#8217;t include substantial entitlement reform and <b>real spending cuts<\/b>, not dummy out-year cuts that will never happen. Write them <i>now<\/i>, because they will come under tremendous pressure to cave into big spending, big taxing Democrats desperate to keep that deficit spending heroin flowing.<\/p>\n<p>Deficit spending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=15865\">will destroy our economy<\/a>. The problem is not that we&#8217;re undertaxed, the problem is that the federal government spends insanely more money than we have in order to fund a vast array of crony capitalists, special interest groups, and permanent dole underclass for Democrats to milk for votes. If we continue down the current road, we will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=12625\">end up like Greece<\/a>. There&#8217;s time to avoid going over the falls, but it&#8217;s getting shorter all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Without spending reform, there&#8217;s a good chance that this nation of the people, by the people and for the people may very well perish from this earth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write your senators and congressmen to let them know you oppose any &#8220;Fiscal Cliff&#8221; deal that doesn&#8217;t include substantial entitlement reform and real spending cuts, not dummy out-year cuts that will never happen. Write them now, because they will come under tremendous pressure to cave into big spending, big taxing Democrats desperate to keep that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,17],"tags":[2879,561,95,1823],"class_list":["post-15924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-democrats","tag-budget","tag-debt","tag-deficits","tag-fiscal-cliff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15924"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15958,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/revisions\/15958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}