{"id":484,"date":"2005-02-02T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=484"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:32:30","slug":"502-of-state-of-the-union-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"[482] Of State of the Union 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you folks ready for our annual laugh?<\/p>\n<p>I hope Bush has finally learnt his past mistakes, or else. Five more minutes and oh, I can&#8217;t wait to listen to him.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; alright. I take that back. It was good, at least to me and especially how he brought the social security issue to the table. I understand how the social system is flawed but I&#8217;m not sure privatization is the right solution. Regardless of that, I prefer one, instead of letting somebody else or the government to finance one&#8217;s own future. The current system put the unnecessary burden on the wrong generation.<\/p>\n<p>The environment though, received scant attention. Bush wants to encourage hydrogen fuel &#8211; something that he said in his last address. I&#8217;m not sure if he is actually trying anything at all though.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned about cutting down spending while making tax cut permanent. Heh! Reagan wanted that too. I don&#8217;t think cutting down both taxes and spending simultaneously is easy, if impossible is not the right choice of word. It is easier said than done, still.<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowculture.com\/\">Low Culture<\/a> is having some fun on Bush. More should be coming, considering how the authors <em>love<\/em> Bush. I&#8217;ve been reading the blog for a couple weeks now and I like it. It&#8217;s now under blogroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you folks ready for our annual laugh? I hope Bush has finally learnt his past mistakes, or else. Five more minutes and oh, I can&#8217;t wait to listen to him. p\/s &#8211; alright. I take that back. It was good, at least to me and especially how he brought the social security issue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}