{"id":2815,"date":"2009-12-21T15:32:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2009-12-21T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:45:45","slug":"quote-of-the-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2815\/quote-of-the-day-16\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Price is Right&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) on Harry Reid\u2019s (D-NV) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2009\/12\/19\/ben-nelson-i-intend-to-vote-for-health-care-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">health care compromise<\/span><\/a> with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You\u2019ve got to compliment Ben Nelson for playing, \u2018The Price Is Right.\u2019\u00a0 He negotiated a Medicaid agreement for Nebraska that puts the federal government on the hook forever.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t the Louisiana Purchase, it&#8217;s the Nebraska windfall &#8230; this isn&#8217;t how this process is supposed to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/21\/AR2009112102272_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;Louisiana Purchase&#8221;<\/span><\/a> already took place during Senate negotiations.\u00a0 Now, taxpayers are &#8220;on the hook&#8221; for Louisiana and Nebraska.\u00a0 This is not because Nebraska and Louisiana are especially important for health care reform, but because two politicians from those states were able to game the system better than their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>This is why our national debt is over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$12 trillion<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) on Harry Reid\u2019s (D-NV) health care compromise with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson: You\u2019ve got to compliment Ben Nelson for playing, \u2018The Price Is Right.\u2019\u00a0 He negotiated a Medicaid agreement for Nebraska that puts the federal government on the hook forever.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t the Louisiana Purchase, it&#8217;s the Nebraska windfall &#8230; this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[531,77,12,665],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ben-nelson","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-richard-burr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}