{"id":1002764,"date":"2009-10-16T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002764"},"modified":"2022-03-05T08:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:14:37","slug":"how-much-government-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/politics\/2009\/10\/16\/how-much-government-is-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Government is Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth M. Duberstein, a chief of staff in the Reagan White House says in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/15\/health\/policy\/15public.html?src=twt&#038;twt=nytimes\">New York Times today<\/a>, What&#8217;s going on here is not simply health care and the public option. In light of the auto bailout, the bank bailout, the stimulus package, the public option fight is a surrogate for how much government is too much.<\/p>\n<p>Actually looking at that list, it&#8217;s pretty clear where the Republicans stand on this important question. As long as the government&#8217;s helping out big business, Wall Street, insurance companies, and auto dealers, it&#8217;s not too much. But as soon as it starts trying to help individual folks trying to get by, then it&#8217;s too much and they&#8217;ll fight tooth and nail to stop it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth M. Duberstein, a chief of staff in the Reagan White House says in the New York Times today, What&#8217;s going on here is not simply health care and the public option. In light of the auto bailout, the bank bailout, the stimulus package, the public option fight is a surrogate for how much government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[206,207],"class_list":["post-1002764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-health-care","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005517,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002764\/revisions\/1005517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}