{"id":179,"date":"2004-04-09T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T15:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2004-04-09T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T15:21:30","slug":"budget_deficit_throw_granny_off_welfare_and_buy_your_own_drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Budget Deficit: &#8220;throw Granny off welfare&#8221; and &#8220;buy your own drugs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ceTIZGZ2KW4J:www.javaranch.com\/images\/granny.gif\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:tVqQRXs4AmUJ:graphics.stanford.edu\/projects\/mich\/medici\/high-school-kids-s.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/table>\n<p>A teacher recently gave her students the assignment of balancing the federal budget using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetsim.org\/nbs\/longbudget04.html\">this simulation<\/a>. Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/betsyspage.blogspot.com\/2004_04_04_betsyspage_archive.html#108147303330926115\">results are instructive<\/a>.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2004\/04\/my_wife_teaches.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher recently gave her students the assignment of balancing the federal budget using this simulation. Some of the results are instructive. From Marginal Revolution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}