{"id":1616,"date":"2001-12-03T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2001-12-04T01:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2001-12-03T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2001-12-04T01:52:25","slug":"stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/03\/stimulus.html","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"

PunditWatch’s Quote of the Week<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

“In Europe they call it socialism, here we call it a stimulus package.”
\n              –David Brooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PunditWatch’s Quote of the Week “In Europe they call it socialism, here we call it a stimulus package.”               –David Brooks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138482,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/once-again-no-hitlers-national-socialism-wasnt-what-anyone-talks-about-when-supporting-socialism.html","url_meta":{"origin":1616,"position":0},"title":"Once again, no, Hitler’s “National Socialism” wasn’t what anyone talks about when supporting “socialism”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Mar-19 2:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, unless they're talking about the former to discredit the latter.","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/adolf-hitler-1924-everett.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/adolf-hitler-1924-everett.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/adolf-hitler-1924-everett.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13254,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/playing_for_points.html","url_meta":{"origin":1616,"position":1},"title":"Playing for points","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Feb-09 10:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"The GOP Congresscritters have clearly decided that they are more interested in scoring points than in helping people. 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