{"id":50148,"date":"2015-04-24T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/24\/elections-of-the-living-dead-ideas.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:37:57","slug":"elections-of-the-living-dead-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/24\/elections-of-the-living-dead-ideas.html","title":{"rendered":"Elections of the Living Dead Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman on the resurrection of the standard package of Republican economic reform &#8212; raising the Social Security eligibility age, treating the ACA as though all their predictions of DOOOOM came true,, and, best of all, Trickle-down Economics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/24\/opinion\/paul-krugman-zombies-of-2016.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/24\/opinion\/paul-krugman-zombies-of-2016.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#39;s going to make for a long campaign. And a worse presidency, if any of them get in with a GOP Congress to back them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6141303415158931873\/6141303429767794482'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4St4eHBz_L4\/VTpK7m0yjzI\/AAAAAAADNEE\/lKTuY4VdaS4\/Zombies-Wallpaper-1680x1050-52558%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/eh9wMuUEyFR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman on the resurrection of the standard package of Republican economic reform &#8212; raising the Social Security eligibility age, treating the ACA as though all their predictions of DOOOOM came true,, and, best of all, Trickle-down Economics: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/24\/opinion\/paul-krugman-zombies-of-2016.html Yeah, that&#39;s going to make for a long campaign. And a worse presidency, if any of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/24\/elections-of-the-living-dead-ideas.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elections of the Living Dead Ideas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Zombies-Wallpaper-1680x1050-525585B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131952,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/the-election-about-the-real-issues.html","url_meta":{"origin":50148,"position":0},"title":"The Election about the Real Issues","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Nov-16 8:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The argument has been made, amidst all the sex talk and apparent scandal-mongering, that this has been a remarkably issue-free election. 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