{"id":1557,"date":"2009-08-20T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/stimulate-who-what\/"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:50:19","slug":"stimulate-who-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/stimulate-who-what\/","title":{"rendered":"stimulate who?  what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/ion\/stimulus\" title=\"Waiting For Stimulus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/waiting-for-stimulus.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting For Stimulus\" width=\"85\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.912dcmarchsa.info\/\" title=\"9\/12\/09 Washington D.C.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/912pageheader.jpg\" alt=\"9\/12\/09 Washington D.C.\" width=\"401\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/obamas-stimulus.pdf\" title=\"Obama\u2019s Stimulus Spending\">Obama\u2019s Stimulus Spending Chart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, the stimulus package was really a &#8220;stimulate the government&#8221; package with unprecedented inflationary deficit spending.\u00a0 How does transferring the country&#8217;s wealth and treasure to government agencies that do not produce new goods and services, that do not make a profit, that only redistribute after first confiscating private wealth, and that consume tremendous overhead expenses, stimulate the productive sector of an economy?<\/p>\n<p>In tough economic times, stimulating the dead-weight of government is the last thing we should do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s Stimulus Spending Chart So, the stimulus package was really a &#8220;stimulate the government&#8221; package with unprecedented inflationary deficit spending.\u00a0 How does transferring the country&#8217;s wealth and treasure to government agencies that do not produce new goods and services, that do not make a profit, that only redistribute after first confiscating private wealth, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}