{"id":197585,"date":"2008-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/pelosi-caves-to-republicans-again\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:00:00","slug":"pelosi-caves-to-republicans-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/pelosi-caves-to-republicans-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Caves to Republicans&#8230;.AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Nancy Pelosi, in discussions with Republicans<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/mochila.php?articleId=12085672&amp;channelId=76&amp;buyerId=talkingpointsmemo_com400732&amp;buid=866\">gave up more in food food stamps and an extension to unemployment benefits<\/a> to get tax rebates for the working poor.<\/p>\n<p>She also gave in on tax breaks for business.<\/p>\n<p>I heard on the radio that 1$ in unemployment benefits generates about $1.60 in economic activity, and $1.70 for the food stamps, while the business tax cuts generate about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">25\u00a2<\/span> for every dollar.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment and food stamps also hit the economy in weeks, as opposed to about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">6 months<\/span> for business tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for knuckling under and screwing the economy to give tax breaks to Bush&#8217;s buddies.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Nancy Pelosi, good old Ms.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NOT ON THE TABLE! NOT ON THE TABLE!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/images\/Nancy%20Pelosi.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Nancy Pelosi, in discussions with Republicansgave up more in food food stamps and an extension to unemployment benefits to get tax rebates for the working poor. She also gave in on tax breaks for business. I heard on the radio that 1$ in unemployment benefits generates about $1.60 in economic activity, and $1.70 for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,973,983,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-economy","category-taxes","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}