{"id":34869,"date":"2013-04-05T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34869"},"modified":"2013-04-05T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:27:03","slug":"bbc-obama-offering-to-cut-us-pensions-for-deficit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/04\/05\/bbc-obama-offering-to-cut-us-pensions-for-deficit-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Obama &#8216;offering to cut US pensions&#8217; for deficit deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama is prepared to offer cuts to Americans&#8217; pensions to strike a deficit deal with Republicans, a White House official says.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Democratic president wants higher taxes on the rich. He will outline his budget plan next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would cut the deficit by $1.8 trillion (\u00a31.2 trillion) over 10 years, say administration officials.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats would oppose cuts to pensions, while Republicans have refused to accept tax rises.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal trailed by the White House, Mr Obama would support lowering the inflation measure used to calculate cost-of-living increases in Social Security pensions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-22042555\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama is prepared to offer cuts to Americans&#8217; pensions to strike a deficit deal with Republicans, a White House official says. In return, the Democratic president wants higher taxes on the rich. He will outline his budget plan next Wednesday. The proposal would cut the deficit by $1.8 trillion (\u00a31.2 trillion) over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}