{"id":382,"date":"2009-01-11T22:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2009-01-11T22:48:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T22:48:02","slug":"iousa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"I.O.U.S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the documentary &#8220;I.O.U.S.A.&#8221; on CNN. Or, to be precise, I saw the last half hour of it, and then I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iousathemovie.com\/\">I.O.U.S.A Web site<\/a> and viewed the &#8220;bite-sized&#8221; 30-minute version.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alarming. I am not an American, and our country has so far maintained a modest budget surplus (this year, it may yet turn into a deficit, but perhaps not, as the days of the present government may be numbered) but I am still gravely concerned: a collapse of the U.S. economy or, more precisely, that of the U.S. dollar would make the Great Depression seem like child&#8217;s play in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder many are expecting a near miracle from the incoming Obama administration. That is because it&#8217;s abundantly clear that &#8220;business as usual&#8221; means certain disaster. But what can Obama do? He may be exceptionally talented, but even so, miracles may be beyond his reach.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=382' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the documentary &#8220;I.O.U.S.A.&#8221; on CNN. Or, to be precise, I saw the last half hour of it, and then I went to the I.O.U.S.A Web site and viewed the &#8220;bite-sized&#8221; 30-minute version. It&#8217;s alarming. I am not an American, and our country has so far maintained a modest budget surplus (this year, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=382' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-19-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\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}