{"id":1436,"date":"2009-05-16T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/05\/16\/why-pay-today-when-you-can-charge-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T13:52:31","slug":"why-pay-today-when-you-can-charge-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/05\/16\/why-pay-today-when-you-can-charge-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Why pay today when you can charge tomorrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Lynn Westmoreland (Georgia 3rd Congressional District) recently published a well thought out, and humorous <a href=\"http:\/\/westmoreland.house.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=126058\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/westmoreland.house.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=126058', 'op-ed');\" target=\"new\">op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAlso, we no longer Super Size at fast food restaurants.\u201d [Daddy Smith]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Super Sizing at hamburger joints gives the family more value for its dollar. We get lots more food and drink for only pennies more. It\u2019s wasteful not to Super Size. Any idiot can see this cut is irresponsible and poorly thought out.\u201d [Rebukes daughter Nancy Smith]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Westmoreland usually gets this sort of thing right, and the op-ed, poking fun at the Obama administration\u2019s $17 billion in cuts from the $3.4 trillion budget hits the nail on the head.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, the Nation is going to have to grow a pair, and start making some difficult decisions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Lynn Westmoreland (Georgia 3rd Congressional District) recently published a well thought out, and humorous op-ed. \u201cAlso, we no longer Super Size at fast food restaurants.\u201d [Daddy Smith] \u201cAnd Super Sizing at hamburger joints gives the family more value for its dollar. We get lots more food and drink for only pennies more. It\u2019s wasteful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/05\/16\/why-pay-today-when-you-can-charge-tomorrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why pay today when you can charge tomorrow?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}