{"id":2846,"date":"2009-06-15T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2009-06-15T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T08:00:08","slug":"seeing-it-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2846","title":{"rendered":"Seeing it in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/10\/business\/economy\/10leonhardt.html?_r=2\">America\u2019s Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breaking down the $2 trillion in deficit since 2000.  For all the hysteria about recent events, I find this tidbit interesting (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/06\/09\/business\/economy\/20090610-leonhardt-graphic.html\">summarized in this graphic<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 7 percent comes from the stimulus bill that Mr. Obama signed in February. And only 3 percent comes from Mr. Obama\u2019s agenda on health care, education, energy and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>If the analysis is extended further into the future, well beyond 2012, the Obama agenda accounts for only a slightly higher share of the projected deficits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama doesn&#8217;t get a free pass, though.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBush behaved incredibly irresponsibly for eight years. On the one hand, it might seem unfair for people to blame Obama for not fixing it. On the other hand, he\u2019s not fixing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd,\u201d he added, \u201cnot fixing it is, in a sense, making it worse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making Breaking down the $2 trillion in deficit since 2000. For all the hysteria about recent events, I find this tidbit interesting (summarized in this graphic): About 7 percent comes from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2846\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}