{"id":1566,"date":"2008-02-27T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2009-03-09T20:09:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:09:47","slug":"1561-of-to-reduce-deficit-with-increased-public-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"[1561] Of deficit reduction through increased spending!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BN&#8217;s manifesto says that it promises to reduce fiscal deficit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In its election manifesto, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi&#8217;s coalition also pledged to create two million new jobs, encourage one million new businesses and rein in the fiscal deficit over the next five years. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-32136220080225\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysia PM woos non-Malays in election manifesto<\/a><\/em>. Reuters. February 25 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder, I wo-wo-wo-wo-wonder, how is he going to do that with his planned increase in public spending for IDR, NCER, ECER, SCORE, SDC, OMG, WTF, LOL, ROTF, ZZZ, etc, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Will it be through private finance initiative? Or based on hope that the economy will improve tremendously? Or through multiplier effect brought upon by projects implemented? Or taxation? Or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BN&#8217;s manifesto says that it promises to reduce fiscal deficit: In its election manifesto, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi&#8217;s coalition also pledged to create two million new jobs, encourage one million new businesses and rein in the fiscal deficit over the next five years. [Malaysia PM woos non-Malays in election manifesto. Reuters. February 25 2008] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[179,43],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","tag-fiscal-deficit","tag-government-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}