{"id":3177,"date":"2005-01-19T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2021-06-05T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T18:56:44","slug":"there-is-no-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/01\/19\/there-is-no-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"There is No Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Blogging against Bush was less than a resounding success, yet here I go again.&nbsp; A new PAC site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereisnocrisis.com\">There is No Crisis.com<\/a>, has begun, trying to get the point across that despite our President\u2019s repeated assertions, there <i>is<\/i> no social security crisis.&nbsp; The Republicans\u2019 continued cries for the piratization\u2014sorry, privatization\u2014of social security is nothing more than another attempt to \u201cstarve the beast\u201d, to get rid of those damned irritating social programs that spend money on the middle class instead of on their wealthy Republican selves the way God intended.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; There is no crisis.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; But then again, there were no WMD \u2026 and we all know how successful blogs were in getting that point across.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Blogging against Bush was less than a resounding success, yet here I go again.&nbsp; A new PAC site, There is No Crisis.com, has begun, trying to get the point across that despite our President\u2019s repeated assertions, there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/01\/19\/there-is-no-crisis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}