{"id":68591,"date":"2015-04-13T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T04:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=68591"},"modified":"2015-04-13T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T04:15:02","slug":"letting-government-do-what-it-does-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=68591","title":{"rendered":"Letting government do what it does best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AS Republican presidential hopefuls trot out their policy agendas \u201d which always involve cutting taxes on the rich while slashing benefits for the poor and middle class \u201d some real new thinking is happening on the other side of the aisle. Suddenly, it seems, many Democrats have decided to break with Beltway orthodoxy, which always calls for cuts in \u0153entitlements\u009d. Instead, theyre proposing that Social Security benefits actually be expanded.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/node\/80342\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS Republican presidential hopefuls trot out their policy agendas \u201d which always involve cutting taxes on the rich while slashing benefits for the poor and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68592,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68591\/revisions\/68592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}