{"id":31246,"date":"2011-02-14T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mark-kirk-go-for-the-big-kahuna-on-spending-cuts-entitlements\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:50:49","slug":"mark-kirk-go-for-the-big-kahuna-on-spending-cuts-entitlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mark-kirk-go-for-the-big-kahuna-on-spending-cuts-entitlements.php","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kirk: Go for the &quot;Big Kahuna&quot; on Spending Cuts &#8211; Entitlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-XYAQihlmAO0\/TVbmnpx1gnI\/AAAAAAAAQkE\/p-PQipbEOWA\/s1600\/MarkKirk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/349eb_MarkKirk.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>\"We need dramatic anti-spending reform\"<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>US Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois, endorsed massive spending cuts, and even entitlement reforms on Fox Business.<\/p><p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/143673-kirk-no-vote-on-raising-debt-limit-without-anti-spending-reform\">The Hill<\/a> \"Kirk wants 'dramatic' cuts\":<\/p><blockquote><p>\"No, but we've got to have dramatic anti-spending reform,\" Kirk said.<\/p><p>&ldquo;We can't just cut billions. We have to cut trillions...<\/p><p>Kirk praised House Republicans for moving to cut $100 billion from Obama's 2011 budget request in a government-spending bill unveiled Friday night. But he said policymakers need to cut more.<\/p><p>&ldquo;But then you have to go to the big kahuna, entitlement reform,&rdquo; Kirk said. &ldquo;That requires presidential leadership. Republicans should support the president in doing that because we need to get a handle on the whole budget.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Editor's note - This website was an early and enthusiastic backer of Kirk for Senate.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/349eb_7828681836623105417-7611071130693290086?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"We need dramatic anti-spending reform\"From Eric Dondero:US Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois, endorsed massive spending cuts, and even entitlement reforms on Fox Business.As reported by The Hill \"Kirk wants 'dramatic' cuts\":\"No, but we've got to have dramatic anti-spending reform,\" Kirk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mark-kirk-go-for-the-big-kahuna-on-spending-cuts-entitlements.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}