{"id":135979,"date":"2018-03-22T22:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T04:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135979"},"modified":"2018-03-29T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:54:05","slug":"broken-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/22\/broken-budgets.html","title":{"rendered":"Broken Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I find the actual outcome far less awful than I might have feared, and while I stand opposed to almost every policy goal of the National Review editors, I have to agree with them completely that the budget process is badly broken.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d probably disagree with the NR as to who&#8217;s (most) to blame, but regardless, how do we fix it?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/03\/omnibus-spending-bill-disgrace-federal-budget\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/E2wiFLnMFQolKyNP7zWCW7g5qQUlGjrCe5aEcwKfHmW0FIKfft9mvMUlqhXzF_9wuYBEfr3tnh_bnYK325Uhge6lK9fCw8rED0cNTlJSPcTuDLSdK3l4muKtP-14UqbY92c20LCTAI1wVbiIoZtigrDOZEPHU3s-A1jTTqSuWHf6=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/03\/omnibus-spending-bill-disgrace-federal-budget\/\">The Omnibus Disgrace | National Review<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt fails to deliver on any major GOP priorities except increased defense spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/AeCtqhGRqSd\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I find the actual outcome far less awful than I might have feared, and while I stand opposed to almost every policy goal of the National Review editors, I have to agree with them completely that the budget process is badly broken. I&#8217;d probably disagree with the NR as to who&#8217;s (most) to blame, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/22\/broken-budgets.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Broken Budgets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,376],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-135979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","tag-congress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/US-Capitol.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33391,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/because-real-science-is-about-jobs.html","url_meta":{"origin":135979,"position":0},"title":"Because Real Science is about JOBS!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Apr-13 9:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And not spending money looking at things that someone else has looked at! 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