{"id":35460,"date":"2019-02-13T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35460"},"modified":"2019-02-13T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:54:10","slug":"what-no-outcry-over-the-national-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35460","title":{"rendered":"What? No outcry over the national debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This just in: The U.S. debt has just jumped past the <em>$22 trillion<\/em> mark, rising more than $2 trillion during the first two years of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>I have to ask: Where is the outcry? Why hasn&#8217;t the far right raised holy hell about that? Why are acquiring all this additional debt without anyone raising a stink about it?<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t the 2012 Republican Party nominee Mitt Romney once chide President Obama at a charity dinner that the event was sponsored by &#8220;the letter &#8216;O&#8217; and the number 16 trillion&#8221;? He was referring to the size of the debt during the 2012 presidential campaign. The quip drew lots of laughs &#8212; and a few groans.<\/p>\n<p>However, the GOP was simply aghast at the national debt back then.<\/p>\n<p>This time? <em>Pfftt!<\/em> Who cares?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I almost forgot! Donald Trump has referred to himself as the &#8220;King of Debt.&#8221; <em>All hail the king!<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: The U.S. debt has just jumped past the $22 trillion mark, rising more than $2 trillion during the first two years of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s administration. I have to ask: Where is the outcry? Why hasn&#8217;t the far right raised holy hell about that? Why are acquiring all this additional debt without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What? No outcry over the national debt?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910],"tags":[61,540,775,1424,3101,3197],"class_list":["post-35460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","tag-2012-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget-deficit","tag-donald-trump","tag-mitt-romney","tag-national-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35461,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35460\/revisions\/35461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}