{"id":6271,"date":"2010-07-26T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2010-07-26T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T14:33:30","slug":"and-that-obamacare-already-adds-to-that-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6271\/and-that-obamacare-already-adds-to-that-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;And That ObamaCare Already Adds to the Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Barack Obama preposterously claimed that ObamaCare would reduce the deficit, rather than exacerbate it?\u00a0 Last week, in admitting that this year&#8217;s total budget deficit will exceed last year&#8217;s, the Obama Administration included a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748703294904575385481462433508.html#mod=todays_us_front_section\" target=\"_blank\">noteworthy admission<\/a>.\u00a0 Namely, that ObamaCare is already adding to his unsustainable deficits.\u00a0 As reported by <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House said the health-care law, heralded as a powerful deficit-tamer in the long term, is expected to add $51 billion of debt between now and fiscal 2012. Those increases more than offset modest savings through 2020.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reasonable people knew it was just a matter of time until even Obama admitted that ObamaCare compounds the nation&#8217;s deficit.\u00a0 But who knew that would only take four months?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Barack Obama preposterously claimed that ObamaCare would reduce the deficit, rather than exacerbate it?\u00a0 Last week, in admitting that this year&#8217;s total budget deficit will exceed last year&#8217;s, the Obama Administration included a noteworthy admission.\u00a0 Namely, that ObamaCare is already adding to his unsustainable deficits.\u00a0 As reported by The Wall Street Journal: The [&hellip;]<\/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":[40,59,12,24,35,61,28],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-deficit","tag-health-care","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-spending","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","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=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}