{"id":1801,"date":"2008-02-26T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/26\/closing-the-budget-gap-were-so-screwed\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T07:52:13","slug":"closing-the-budget-gap-were-so-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/closing-the-budget-gap-were-so-screwed\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Budget Gap: We&#8217;re So Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&#8217;s accountant and head of the Government Accountability Office,  David Walker gave a speech at the National Press Club December 17th, 2007. It&#8217;s a very good speech. His news isn&#8217;t good. <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/28_wordforword_64.mp3\">Here is the speech. Listen to the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/d08371cg.pdf\">the text of this speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had found this speech via a <a href=\"http:\/\/wordforword.publicradio.org\/programs\/2007\/12\/28\/\">Word for Word podcast<\/a>. I see that David Walker and the GAO has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/cghome.htm\">large archive of speeches<\/a>. I&#8217;ll get to listening to them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&#8217;s accountant and head of the Government Accountability Office, David Walker gave a speech at the National Press Club December 17th, 2007. It&#8217;s a very good speech. His news isn&#8217;t good. Here is the speech. Listen to the whole thing. Here is the text of this speech. I had found this speech via a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-playing-reading-watching-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}