{"id":32374,"date":"2012-12-13T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32374"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:19:07","slug":"have-your-stored-a-ton-of-cornmeal-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32374","title":{"rendered":"Have Your Stored A Ton Of Cornmeal Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hype around the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d reminds me of the hype around Y2K which supports my suspicion that\u2019s all it is \u2013 hype.<\/p>\n<p>If the GOP fails to cave in, we automatically enact the spending cuts adopted by John Kerry\u2019s Super Committee and cut the monthly shortfall in half. We don\u2019t cut the Budget in half, just the amount we\u2019re Short each month.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll still be spending ourselves into bankruptcy, only not as fast. That should be okay with Democrats, shouldn\u2019t it? Incrementalism, and all that?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like most of the Democrat (and DFL) agenda, it&#8217;s there to gull the gullible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and draw attention away from the real problem; the upcoming debt and entitlement crunches.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, how about that upcoming royal baby? \u00a0Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s sex life? \u00a0X-Factor?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The hype around the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d reminds me of the hype around Y2K which supports my suspicion that\u2019s all it is \u2013 hype. If the GOP fails to cave in, we automatically enact the spending cuts adopted by John Kerry\u2019s Super Committee and cut the monthly shortfall in half. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32379,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32374\/revisions\/32379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}