{"id":609,"date":"2005-11-09T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=609"},"modified":"2005-11-09T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:58:49","slug":"the_death_of_compassionate_con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Compassionate Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This paragraph from Jim Willis and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoJo.net<\/a>, of Sojourners, concerning the proposed budget cuts before the House and the death of the idea of &#8220;Compassionate Conservatism:&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nThe House is scheduled to begin debate tomorrow on its budget bill, which includes $54 billion in cuts. On the table are cuts of $9.5 billion in Medicaid &#8211; by requiring co-pays for pregnant women and children for the first time; $8 billion in foster care, child support enforcement, and aid to the disabled; and $844 million in the Food Stamps Program, which would prevent 300,000 people from receiving food stamps. Forty thousand children would be cut from reduced-price school lunches. Lawmakers intend to follow these with a further cut of $70 billion in taxes that will primarily benefit the top 3% of taxpayers. The message from Congress is that in response to Hurricane Katrina, we&#8217;re going to cut services for the poor, cut taxes for the rich, and increase deficits for our children and grandchildren.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paragraph from Jim Willis and SoJo.net, of Sojourners, concerning the proposed budget cuts before the House and the death of the idea of &#8220;Compassionate Conservatism:&#8221; The House is scheduled to begin debate tomorrow on its budget bill, which includes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicsculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}