{"id":53,"date":"2011-01-25T14:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/01\/25\/investments-spending-so\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T14:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T19:27:03","slug":"investments-spending-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/01\/25\/investments-spending-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Investments = Spending, So?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political Wire has this quote of the day:<\/p>\n

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"When the President talks in his speech about investment, the American people need to understand that translates into spending."
— Sen. John Thune (R-SD), quoted by KFSY-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And I hope his answer is an emphatic:<\/p>\n

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Yes, it means spending. The deficit is a problem and I\u2019m proposing ways to reduce it. But a much greater problem in America is jobs\u2014good jobs now and in the future. We need to invest in infrastructure that puts people to work right away.  It\u2019s not make work; it\u2019s much needed work as we\u2019re falling behind the rest of the world in the sophistication and reliability of our roads, bridges, electrical grids and water and sewer systems. We need to invest in education so that the next generation is trained for jobs of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Mr. Thune\u2019s Republican solution is to cut spending and depend on the private sector. Is the private sector going to build roads and bridges? Of course not. For the last 30 years, we\u2019ve seen nothing but trickle down schemes by Republicans that have left us less competitive in the world with declining incomes and disappearing futures for the middle class. The American people aren\u2019t buying Republicans\u2019 slight of hand that takes money from the middle class and gives it to the wealthiest 1% in this country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But my guess is that at best we\u2019ll only get the first part of this answer. After all, he wants a \u201ccivil\u201d tone. To Obama and the rest of the country that translates to meek. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political Wire has this quote of the day: "When the President talks in his speech about investment, the American people need to understand that translates into spending." — Sen. John Thune (R-SD), quoted by KFSY-TV. And I hope his answer is an emphatic: Yes, it means spending. The deficit is a problem and I\u2019m proposing… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}