{"id":6742,"date":"2010-08-24T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2010-08-24T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:49:19","slug":"the-real-deficit-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6742\/the-real-deficit-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Deficit in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to appreciate the consequences of government policies when you\u2019ve never had to make a payroll.\u00a0 Noting that the Obama Administration has no person in senior management with business experience, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/opinion\/article\/opinion-washingtons-endangered-species-business-leaders\/19604844\" target=\"_blank\">AOL contributor Marty Robins<\/a> says the most troubling deficit in Washington, D.C. is a lack of ideas from people who\u2019ve actually had to work in a free market economy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we need more of in Washington are those who combine a broad understanding of the nuances and &#8220;macro&#8221; implications of public policy with an appreciation of what makes the private sector tick on a &#8220;micro&#8221; level, and what constitutes good and bad assistance and incentives.<\/p>\n<p>We need those who have successfully built or built up businesses and been personally invested &#8212; in a financial and an emotional sense &#8212; in such efforts, so that they can appreciate what government can and cannot do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to appreciate the consequences of government policies when you\u2019ve never had to make a payroll.\u00a0 Noting that the Obama Administration has no person in senior management with business experience, AOL contributor Marty Robins says the most troubling deficit in Washington, D.C. is a lack of ideas from people who\u2019ve actually had to work [&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":[1592,59,19,395],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-business","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-obama-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742","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=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6745,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions\/6745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}