{"id":50231,"date":"2015-01-05T07:09:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50231"},"modified":"2015-01-05T07:14:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:14:45","slug":"50231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50231","title":{"rendered":"The Proverbial Frog In A Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails in re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2014\/12\/per-capita-federal-spending-shows-40-year-trends.php\">a recent Powerline article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Mandatory&#8221; [spending] does not include defense, it covers things the government must spend because people are entitled to them: i.e., welfare, medicare, social security, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Entitlements are the big growth. Not a surprise. For my wife and me, it&#8217;s $22,000 worth. That&#8217;s an eye opener.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how conservatives can warn people about something for six years, and it can still be a surprise, even to smart people, how bad it actually is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails in re a recent Powerline article: &#8220;Mandatory&#8221; [spending] does not include defense, it covers things the government must spend because people are entitled to them: i.e., welfare, medicare, social security, etc. &nbsp; Entitlements are the big growth. Not a surprise. For my wife and me, it&#8217;s $22,000 worth. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50231","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=50231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50237,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50231\/revisions\/50237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}