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    "href": "/post/2009/05/13/structural-imbalance-more-like-spending-spree/",
    "relId": "2009/05/13/structural-imbalance-more-like-spending-spree",
    "title": "\"Structural Imbalance\"? More Like \"Spending Spree\"",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Government",
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    "created": "2009-05-13 12:00:08 UTC",
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        "2009-05-13 12:00:08 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Out in the real world beyond Washington, \u00e2\u0080\u009cstructural imbalance\u00e2\u0080\u009d means: Washington politicians are on a spending rampage the likes of which has never before been seen anywhere  in human history. The spenders include President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, plus a supporting cast of bureaucrats like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his predecessor, Henry Paulson, and the Democratic majorities in the Senate and House (joined by a few Senate Republicans). These officials are terminally afflicted with what Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, calls \u00e2\u0080\u009cfederal spending disease\u00e2\u0080\u009d (FSD) an incurable addiction in which the sufferer is utterly unable to stop spending other people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s money. An intervention by voters is the only effective treatment.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Feds-are-broke-but-keep-right-on-spending--44775662.html\">www.washingtonexaminer.com &gt;&gt; Feds are broke but keep right on spending</a>.</p>\n"
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