{"id":2466,"date":"2011-11-09T07:25:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2016-11-28T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T04:00:23","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-the-math-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the math, stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We received this e-mail yesterday\u00a0\u2013 leaving us muttering\u00a0aloud if this is actually the case\u2026 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine running the country with these numbers?<\/p>\n<p>United States Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000<\/p>\n<p>New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000<\/p>\n<p>National debt: $14,271,000,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Now, remove 8 zeros and pretend it&#8217;s a household budget.<\/p>\n<p>Annual family income: $21,700<\/p>\n<p>Money the family spent: $38,200<\/p>\n<p>New debt on the credit card: $16,500<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding balance on credit card: $142,710<\/p>\n<p>Total budget cuts: $385<\/p>\n<p>Sorta brings the issue &#8220;home&#8221; doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. &#8211; Thanks to Pat George for this eye-opener, especially given the daily\u00a0international headlines.) \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received this e-mail yesterday\u00a0\u2013 leaving us muttering\u00a0aloud if this is actually the case\u2026 \u00a0 Can you imagine running the country with these numbers? United States Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 Now, remove 8 zeros and pretend it&#8217;s a household budget. Annual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[52,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}