{"id":163,"date":"2007-08-13T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/13\/the-mess-were-in\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T12:50:21","slug":"the-mess-were-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-mess-were-in","title":{"rendered":"The mess we&#8217;re in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Novak gives us excellent insight into precisely why the Federal budget deficit will always be a <em>deficit<\/em>. At least one congressman with integrity stood on principle against the entire House of Representatives as he demanded justification for millions of dollars of earmarks that aren&#8217;t needed nor have they been requested by various departments of the government. These earmarks serve only one purpose: rewarding constiuents back home for their support.<\/p>\n<p>Read Mr. Novak&#8217;s excellent column: <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/house_of_corruption.html\">House of Corruption?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Novak gives us excellent insight into precisely why the Federal budget deficit will always be a deficit. At least one congressman with integrity stood on principle against the entire House of Representatives as he demanded justification for millions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-mess-were-in\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}