{"id":16089,"date":"2013-07-07T06:34:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T10:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=16089"},"modified":"2013-06-30T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T22:36:02","slug":"3-years-ago-the-indignant-household-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/07\/07\/3-years-ago-the-indignant-household-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"3 years ago: The Indignant Household Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

July 7, 2010, on this blog:\u00a0The Indignant Household Budget<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Anybody complaining about deficits who isn\u2019t suggesting, first and foremost, that the unemployed need to be re-employed, is either a fool or a villain or both. If you\u2019re going to be tut-tutting about deficits, then you had better also be screaming bloody murder about unemployment. If you do the former without doing the latter, you supply proof that you don\u2019t understand or care about either one.<\/p>\n

The problem is unemployment. The Indignant Politicians and the Deficit Tsk-tsk-forces refuse to acknowledge that because it doesn\u2019t fit neatly into the \u201cWe\u2019re righteous, they\u2019re immoral spendthrifts\u201d template of the standard household-budget analogy.<\/p>\n

When your household budget is out of balance due to unemployment, then no amount of cost-cutting is going to allow your family to live within its means. When your means is an income of $0 you don\u2019t need austerity or discipline or smug self-righteousness. You need a job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When your household budget is out of balance due to unemployment, then no amount of cost-cutting is going to allow your family to live within its means. When your means is an income of $0 you don’t need austerity or discipline or smug self-righteousness. You need a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n3 years ago: The Indignant Household Budget<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When your household budget is out of balance due to unemployment, then no amount of cost-cutting is going to allow your family to live within its means. When your means is an income of $0 you don't need austerity or discipline or smug self-righteousness. 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