{"id":4697,"date":"2019-12-17T23:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2019-12-17T23:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:03:45","slug":"australian-governments-faux-surplus-slashed-because-of-predictable-economic-short-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/australian-governments-faux-surplus-slashed-because-of-predictable-economic-short-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian government&#8217;s faux surplus slashed because of predictable economic short falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/dec\/16\/slump-in-economic-growth-wages-and-revenue-wipes-21bn-off-surplus-over-forward-estimates?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlBVVMtMTkxMjE2&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=GTAU_email&amp;utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Growth downgraded, unemployment higher, wages growth weaker,  business investment dismal, the government\u2019s economic credibility  destroyed \u2013 that\u2019s the mid year budget update in a nutshell,\u201d Chalmers  said. \u201cThe economy is much weaker and the government has no idea and no plan to turn things around<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can&#8217;t manage the economy, how can you run the nation? &#8211; Scott Morrison, Australia&#8217;s idiot prime minister who can&#8217;t do either of those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian. \u201cGrowth downgraded, unemployment higher, wages growth weaker, business investment dismal, the government\u2019s economic credibility destroyed \u2013 that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}