{"id":3847,"date":"2010-02-18T14:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:15:14","slug":"can-you-say-stacked-and-useless-in-the-same-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3847\/can-you-say-stacked-and-useless-in-the-same-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Say &#8220;Stacked&#8221; and &#8220;Useless&#8221; in the Same Sentence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, by Executive Order, President Obama instituted a commission to make recommendations for deficit reduction.\u00a0 Whatever the recommendations are, whenever they come, they will have no binding authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Congress, which along with the administration is busily increasing the deficit, refused\u00a0to set up a commission for deficit reduction.<\/p>\n<p>The commission will have eighteen members.\u00a0 Including co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, Obama will appoint 6 members, Democrat leaders will appoint 6 and Republican leaders will appoint 6.\u00a0 Take out Simpson, a Republican, and we make that eleven to seven, meaning that President Obama, if nothing else, can really do that political math.\u00a0 But, we are assured, all recommendations will require 14 votes for adoption, so they will be, wonder of political math wonders, \u201cbipartisan.\u201d\u00a0 Those would, of course, be the recommendations of no binding authority.<\/p>\n<p>Remember all those jobs Americans wouldn\u2019t do?\u00a0 Well now we know the jobs the President and Congress won\u2019t do \u2013 precisely the ones they were sent to Washington to do.\u00a0 And they wonder why so many Americans are disgusted with government&#8230;and their stewardship of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, by Executive Order, President Obama instituted a commission to make recommendations for deficit reduction.\u00a0 Whatever the recommendations are, whenever they come, they will have no binding authority.\u00a0 This comes after Congress, which along with the administration is busily increasing the deficit, refused\u00a0to set up a commission for deficit reduction. The commission will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[875,59,874,14],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-commission","tag-deficit","tag-executive-order","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}