{"id":99,"date":"2010-10-02T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-10-02T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:04:56","slug":"change-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/change-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Change is good"},"content":{"rendered":"

How’s the hope and change working out for me? Pretty well for me, and for most Americans.<\/p>\n

We’ve passed the sort of health care bill we’ve be trying to pass since Teddy Roosevelt was president.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen taxes lowered for most Americans.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen economic stimulus package that has arrested the worst economic downturn since the 30s.<\/p>\n

There are problems to be sure, primarily a deficit that’s largely the result of George Bush’s tax cuts and failed wars<\/a>, and a weak economy whose meltdown began before Obama was elected.<\/p>\n

But yeah, there’s no doubt that the change has been for the better.<\/p>\n

Of course, complaining about the government is the great American pastime — I do it myself. But who really thinks McCain\/Palin would have been better?<\/p>\n

And make no mistake, the candidates the GOP is offering today are essentially McCain\/Palin — on steroids, in many cases.<\/p>\n

Think about that<\/em> when you vote in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make no mistake, the candidates the GOP is offering today are essentially McCain\/Palin — on steroids, in many cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}