{"id":980,"date":"2010-01-17T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=980"},"modified":"2010-01-17T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T18:13:53","slug":"the-state-of-our-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/01\/17\/the-state-of-our-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Our State"},"content":{"rendered":"

N.H. Democrats fiddled while economy burned<\/a>
\nJanuary 17, 2010
\nby Rep. David Bettencourt<\/p>\n

There is an old myth that “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.”<\/p>\n

Here in New Hampshire, the Democrats have fiddled us back to a 1960s counter-cultural radicalism while the letting the state’s economy “burn.” That’s a reality, not just an old myth!<\/p>\n

Few of us were sad to watch 2009 pass. The state’s unemployment rate grew to 6.7 percent, our budget ended the year $50 million off projection, the deficit reached approximately $200 million and a $625 million deficit is lurking for the next budgetary period.<\/p>\n

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Rep. David Bettencourt, R-Salem, is an assistant House Republican whip and a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

N.H. Democrats fiddled while economy burned January 17, 2010 by Rep. David Bettencourt There is an old myth that “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Here in New Hampshire, the Democrats have fiddled us back to a 1960s counter-cultural radicalism while the letting the state’s economy “burn.” That’s a reality, not just an old myth! Few […]<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadbased"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}