{"id":4891,"date":"2012-03-23T17:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T00:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/no-plan\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T00:57:04","slug":"no-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/no-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"No Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/no-plan.jpg' alt='no-plan.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George W. Bush was a spendthrift president whose budgets drove up the national debt to unprecedented levels. Over his two terms in office, federal debt increased by $4.899 trillion. But Bush is a piker compared to Barack Obama. In just a little more than three years in office, Obama&#8217;s fiscal recklessness raised the national debt by an astonishing $4.939 trillion &#8212; already more than Bush&#8217;s eight years. Of even graver concern, our national debt is approaching $16 trillion and now exceeds 100 percent of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p>While on the campaign trail in 2008, Obama called Bush&#8217;s spending &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; and &#8220;unpatriotic.&#8221; Where does that put him?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cartoon and quote courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/edition\/2012\/03\/23\/digest\/\">The Patriot Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush was a spendthrift president whose budgets drove up the national debt to unprecedented levels. Over his two terms in office, federal debt increased&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}