{"id":2554,"date":"2009-12-08T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2009-12-08T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T02:46:30","slug":"congress-prepares-to-light-a-1-1-trillion-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2554\/congress-prepares-to-light-a-1-1-trillion-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Prepares to Light a $1.1 Trillion Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Tis the season for consumer spending, and no collection of humanity does it better than the U.S. Congress. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9CFCKRG1&amp;show_article=1&amp;catnum=3\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>, here are a few of the itemized gifts being wrapped at taxpayers\u2019 expense:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 Huge increase in foreign aid coupled with an 18 percent cut to a program that helps states with cost of incarcerating criminal illegal immigrants<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 Reinstituting a needle exchange program in the District of Columbia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 Eliminating the D.C. voucher program that allows less fortunate students to attend prestigious schools<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 Another $2.5 billion for high-speed rail programs added to the $8 billion provided in the stimulus package<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah; the omnibus spending bill is going to fund nine cabinet agencies whose fiscal year budgets began back on October 1st. As usual, timing is everything\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Tis the season for consumer spending, and no collection of humanity does it better than the U.S. Congress. According to the Associated Press, here are a few of the itemized gifts being wrapped at taxpayers\u2019 expense: \u2022 Huge increase in foreign aid coupled with an 18 percent cut to a program that helps states with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,84,613],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-district-of-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}