{"id":1991,"date":"2008-04-01T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/1991\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T17:41:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:41:37","slug":"1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/1991\/","title":{"rendered":"leading by example&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" vspace=\"7\" height=\"253\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/deficit.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">I think I detect a pattern here. I&#8217;m looking at this because I ran across yet another place where Bush was talking about making his tax cuts permanent. And then I read about his non-responses to the &quot;overborrowing&quot; problem. It&#8217;s hard for me to understand how he can even think of concretizing his tax cuts with sustained deficits that look like this. Reagan did it, and so did Bush&#8217;s dad, but that doesn&#8217;t make it right. I presume that when Bush or McCain talk about fiscal responsibility and cutting government spending, they&#8217;re counting on people not knowing the truth about what Reagan and the two Bushes have done to our National Debt, shown below as a per cent of the Gross National Product:<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"7\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/debts.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">It is beyond ironic that our major economic problem right now is that Banks have allowed people to borrow way more money than they can pay back [or even pay on] to purchase homes &#8211; borrowing like there&#8217;s no tomorrow. I wonder where those home buyers got that idea of ignoring debt?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I detect a pattern here. I&#8217;m looking at this because I ran across yet another place where Bush was talking about making his tax cuts permanent. And then I read about his non-responses to the &quot;overborrowing&quot; problem. It&#8217;s hard for me to understand how he can even think of concretizing his tax cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}