{"id":3533,"date":"2009-10-07T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2009-10-07T23:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T03:30:40","slug":"a-good-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/07\/a-good-thing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"a good thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the end of my great graphing frenzy, I had a lot more generated along the way that I didn&#8217;t post. Maybe I&#8217;ll post them as an aside for a reference later. Some of them are pretty interesting. But there were two that I thought I&#8217;d put up as a closing parenthesis. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/spending_military2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Notice that Reagan and Bush I spent more than Bush II spent on his two wars. Reagan&#8217;s supporters claimed that all that spending forced the end of the Cold War &#8211; &quot;We outspent them.&quot; Most of us think Communism fell because it didn&#8217;t work. If anything brought it to a close, it wasn&#8217;t Reagan&#8217;s&nbsp; spending, it was the early tools of the information age &#8211; phones, fax machines, email &#8211; communication over and around the &quot;iron curtain.&quot; But I wanted to end with at least one thing positive about Ronald Reagan&#8217;s time in grade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/spending_military.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Through whatever mechanism, he stopped the growth of government. For all the damage he did, it&#8217;s clear that non-military government spending has leveled off and it happened in response to his Administration. That&#8217;s probably a pretty good thing. It&#8217;s what Conservatives are for&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of my great graphing frenzy, I had a lot more generated along the way that I didn&#8217;t post. Maybe I&#8217;ll post them as an aside for a reference later. Some of them are pretty interesting. But there were two that I thought I&#8217;d put up as a closing parenthesis. Notice that Reagan [&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-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","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=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}