{"id":6307,"date":"2015-04-10T04:58:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2015-04-09T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T03:03:07","slug":"6307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6307","title":{"rendered":"A look at balancing the fed budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From that clever Canadian rag <em>The Beaverton<\/em>, editors have given us<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/national\/item\/1710-10-ways-to-balance-the-federal-budget\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201c10 ways to balance the federal budget\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Akin to the Letterman Top-10 countdown, here are the Beaverton&#8217;s suggestions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Retrofit Royal Canadian Navy to use more fuel efficient sail technology<\/p>\n<p>2. Reduce House of Commons expenses by putting all legislation for next century into single omnibus bill<\/p>\n<p>3. Create a maximum living age to reduce health care costs<\/p>\n<p>4. Reduce bridge spans by 20% to save on infrastructure expenditures<\/p>\n<p>5. Ask single mothers to get a fourth job to increase tax revenue<\/p>\n<p>6. Ask everyone to chip in<\/p>\n<p>7. Release the Territories back into the wild<\/p>\n<p>8. Start offering Tory MPs lower-grade feed, made out of other Tory MPs<\/p>\n<p>9. Give veterans a shiny new medal instead of their pensions<\/p>\n<p>10. Start producing attack ads against the deficit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From that clever Canadian rag The Beaverton, editors have given us \u201c10 ways to balance the federal budget\u201d Akin to the Letterman Top-10 countdown, here are the Beaverton&#8217;s suggestions: 1. Retrofit Royal Canadian Navy to use more fuel efficient sail technology 2. Reduce House of Commons expenses by putting all legislation for next century into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[35,46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6310,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}