{"id":4621,"date":"2009-04-20T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2009-04-20T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:46:02","slug":"00028169014085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"0.0028169014084507%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the percentage Obama is proposing to cut from the budget to reduce the deficit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20090420\/D97M74380.html\">A senior administration officials<\/a> says President Barack Obama is ready to ask  federal department and agency chiefs to find $100 million to cut from the budget  when he holds his first formal Cabinet meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now before you jump to the conclusion that this is some sort of PR stunt on the part of Jimmy Carter II, consider this:<\/p>\n<p>If you were applying the same reduction to the purchase of a $50,000 car, it would amount to $1.41. If you were applying the same reduction to a family&#8217;s monthly budget of $4000 per month, it would amount to 11 cents <em>per month.<\/em> (!!!)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; go ahead and jump to the aforementioned conclusions now.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I can&#8217;t wait to get home tonight and tell my kids that our government is mortgaging their future a wee bit less than we thought!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the percentage Obama is proposing to cut from the budget to reduce the deficit. A senior administration officials says President Barack Obama is ready to ask federal department and agency chiefs to find $100 million to cut from the budget when he holds his first formal Cabinet meeting. Now before you jump to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,59,64,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-pork-patrol","category-president-obama","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}