{"id":15198,"date":"2012-07-24T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15198"},"modified":"2012-07-24T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T17:46:45","slug":"obama-dismantles-lbjs-great-society-as-poverty-rises-to-1965-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15198\/obama-dismantles-lbjs-great-society-as-poverty-rises-to-1965-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Dismantles LBJ’s “Great Society” as Poverty Rises to 1965 Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, never let it be said that Obama hasn’t achieved anything other than a record number of golf outings and fundraisers.\u00a0 He has dismantled LBJ’s “Great Society,” as poverty approaches levels not seen since 1965<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a 0.1 percentage point increase would put poverty at the highest level since 1965.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We recall Obama promising to cut the deficit in half<\/a> by the end of his “first term,” to close the Guantanamo Bay<\/a> detention center, to adhere to public campaign finance limits<\/a>, to not raise taxes on anyone earning under $250,000 “by one dime”<\/a> and that unemployment would never reach 8%<\/a> under his “stimulus,” but never this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, never let it be said that Obama hasn’t achieved anything other than a record number of golf outings and fundraisers.\u00a0 He has dismantled LBJ’s “Great Society,” as poverty approaches levels not seen since 1965: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Several predicted a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,2098],"class_list":["post-15198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-obama","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}