{"id":49377,"date":"2021-10-02T00:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T00:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49377"},"modified":"2021-10-02T00:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T00:14:36","slug":"some-perspective-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49377","title":{"rendered":"Some perspective, eh?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13972\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A certain amount of context has been tossed aside in the discussion over whether to approve President Biden\u2019s plan to \u201cBuild Back Better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We have become fixated on the number: 3.5 trillion \u2026 as in\u00a0<em>dollars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What has become tossed aside is that the number that Biden and congressional progressives want would cover a 10-year period.<\/p>\n<p>So, that figures to be a $350 billion expenditure\u00a0<em>annually<\/em>\u00a0to do a number of things: improve roads and bridges; modernize air travel; develop ship channels; improve Internet broadband service.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some more perspective. The United States of America boasts a\u00a0<em>$20 trillion<\/em>\u00a0annual economy, which suggests to me that $350 billion each year is like so much spittle in the proverbial bucket.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans and some moderate congressional Democrats are wringing their hands over the amount of money that progressives want to spend. Again, I have to wonder: Why?<\/p>\n<p>If the plan is to spread this expense out over a 10-year span of time, why are we quibbling over the\u00a0<em>total<\/em>\u00a0figure that in the grand scheme seems less relevant when you add some needed context to the discussion?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>A certain amount of context has been tossed aside in the discussion over whether to approve President Biden\u2019s plan to \u201cBuild Back Better.\u201d We have become fixated on the number: 3.5 trillion \u2026 as in\u00a0dollars. What has become tossed aside is that the number that Biden and congressional progressives want would cover a 10-year period. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some perspective, eh?<\/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":[13],"tags":[9790,2505,3197],"class_list":["post-49377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-build-back-better","tag-joe-biden","tag-national-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49377","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=49377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49378,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49377\/revisions\/49378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}