{"id":797,"date":"2009-07-12T12:29:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-07-13T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T16:31:33","slug":"state-budget-in-a-word-sorry-lean-is-not-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/07\/12\/state-budget-in-a-word-sorry-lean-is-not-it\/","title":{"rendered":"State budget in a word? Sorry, &#8216;lean&#8217; is not it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 12, 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090712\/OPINION04\/307129968\/-1\/opinion&#038;dsq=12582752#comment-12582752\">Peter Bragdon for the Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you heard the latest spin by the tax-and-spenders who control state government these days? <\/p>\n<p>The Democrats say the new budget passed by the House and Senate and signed by Gov. John Lynch is &#8220;lean.&#8221; They say we are doing more with less. And they say spending is reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe a word of it!<\/p>\n<p>At a time when 50,000 Granite Staters are out of work and paring down their home budgets to fit declining incomes, government spending continues to grow at breakneck speed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090712\/OPINION04\/307129968\/-1\/opinion&#038;dsq=12582752#comment-12582752\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Peter Bragdon, of Milford, is the Republican leader in the New Hampshire Senate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 12, 2009 Peter Bragdon for the Telegraph Have you heard the latest spin by the tax-and-spenders who control state government these days? The Democrats say the new budget passed by the House and Senate and signed by Gov. John Lynch is &#8220;lean.&#8221; They say we are doing more with less. And they say spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}