{"id":2251,"date":"2007-11-14T00:32:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T05:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/pot_kettle\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T05:32:34","slug":"pot_kettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/pot_kettle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot Kettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/11\/20071113-7.html\">yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The majority was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far it&#8217;s acting like a teenager with a new credit card.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasurydirect.gov\/NP\/BPDLogin?application=np\">Outstanding United States public debt<\/a> under Republican government:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 400px; text-align: center;\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">January\/Year<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Public Debt (Trillions)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">2001<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">$5.7 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">2002<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">$5.9 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">2003<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">$6.4 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">2004<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">$7.0 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">2005<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">$7.6 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">2006<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">$8.2 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">2007<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">$8.7 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>That&#8217;s a teenager with a $3 trillion credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/pot_kettle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Pot Kettle\"><p>President Bush, yesterday: The majority was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far it&#8217;s acting like a teenager with a new credit card. Outstanding United States public debt under Republican government: January\/Year Public Debt (Trillions) 2001 $5.7 2002 $5.9 2003 $6.4 2004 $7.0 2005 $7.6 2006 $8.2 2007 $8.7 That&#8217;s a teenager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}