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    "title": "Spend Now, Save Later",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2009-05-13 14:00:00 UTC",
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        "2009-05-13 14:00:00 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nothing new for presidents to give us bloated budgets with phony promises of belt-tightening at the end of the day. But never, ever, in the history of the republic has there been so irresponsibly gargantuan a budget defended by rhetoric so duplicitous as we are now seeing from President Barack Obama.</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cWe cannot settle for a future of rising deficits and debts that our children cannot pay,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said last month, and he has talked as well about fiscal discipline, eliminating waste, increased efficiency, more focused policies and how dishonest President Bush was in leaving the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan \u00e2\u0080\u009coff the books.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>Well, yes, Bush did that thing and he shouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have, but everyone knew that money was being spent and the dishonesty, such as it was, is nothing \u00e2\u0080\u0093 zero, zip, nada \u00e2\u0080\u0093 next to Obama dressing up as a miser as he promotes a $3.59 trillion budget with a $1.2 trillion deficit on its back.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/JayAmbrose/A-budget-with-no-shortage-of-lies--44869377.html\">www.washingtonexaminer.com &gt;&gt; Jay Ambrose &gt;&gt; Opinion Articles - Jay Ambrose</a>.</em></p>\n"
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