{"id":2209,"date":"2011-07-28T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2011-07-28T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:21:57","slug":"debt-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"Debt debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture, shown a few nights ago on Jay Leno&#8217;s show, of United States Senate majority leader Harry Reid and minority leader Mitch McConnell. If you can&#8217;t easily tell which is which, you are not the only one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/capture_20110725_233759.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2210\" title=\"capture_20110725_233759\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/capture_20110725_233759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/capture_20110725_233759.jpg 660w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/capture_20110725_233759-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just how ridiculous is it that a few days before the debt ceiling deadline, they are simply incapable of coming to an agreement? That even though they seem to agree on the basics (the debt-ceiling must be raised, a long-term solution to tackle the deficit problem must be found) gaining a political advantage over their opponent is more important than resolving a crisis that will likely have long-term repercussions not only for the economy of the United States but that of the entire world?<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the recklessness and ineptitude of today&#8217;s politicians (and not just in the United States, I don&#8217;t want to be an America-basher here) it does make me wonder how long we have before World War Three&#8230;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2209' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture, shown a few nights ago on Jay Leno&#8217;s show, of United States Senate majority leader Harry Reid and minority leader Mitch McConnell. If you can&#8217;t easily tell which is which, you are not the only one: Just how ridiculous is it that a few days before the debt ceiling deadline, they <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2209' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}