{"id":8097,"date":"2012-03-23T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2012-04-06T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:04:39","slug":"sugar-plums-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/sugar-plums-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"sugar plums dancing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugarplum.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8098\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/sugar-plums-dancing\/sugarplum\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugarplum.jpg?fit=340%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"340,260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sugarplum\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugarplum.jpg?fit=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugarplum.jpg?fit=340%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugarplum.jpg?resize=340%2C260\" alt=\"\" title=\"sugarplum\" width=\"340\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugarplum.jpg?w=340&amp;ssl=1 340w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugarplum.jpg?resize=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThursday, March 22 the BEA met to report on the FY 2011-12 collections and estimate for FY 2012-13.  For the year, revenues are $207.1 (3.4%) million over last year\u2019s collections.  The BEA took no action on the November estimate for FY 2012-1.<\/p>\n<p>If I remember correctly, this &#8220;new money&#8221; is discovered while the budget travels from the House to the Senate every year.<\/p>\n<p>I can see the trough dwellers&#8217; dreams of new spending like visions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads. Or, can we try to repair the damage to future generations by paying on the $ 32 billion debt they will inherit?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the Senate will take this money for tax cuts or debt payment? One can only hope.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be the blue guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-S5Db_MTCM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 22 the BEA met to report on the FY 2011-12 collections and estimate for FY 2012-13. For the year, revenues are $207.1 (3.4%) million over last year\u2019s collections. The BEA took no action on the November estimate for FY 2012-1. If I remember correctly, this &#8220;new money&#8221; is discovered while the budget travels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-26B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}