{"id":24033,"date":"2017-03-03T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24033"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:57:50","slug":"a-balanced-budget-amendment-would-be-disastrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/03\/03\/a-balanced-budget-amendment-would-be-disastrous\/","title":{"rendered":"A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Be Disastrous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8HmoA0zRAhs\" target=\"_blank\">MMT: A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Be Disastrous<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HmoA0zRAhs\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If people knew that a balanced budget amendment would be a suicide pact we US citizens agree to, I wonder if there would be so much interest in it. Maybe the citizens of the US are tired of leading the world, and they just want to give up.<\/p>\n<p>Think of playing the Game of Monopoly.  If it had chance cards where you had to pay for exports, and if the bank never gave out more money than it took in, how many rounds of the game could there be before all the players ran out of money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video MMT: A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Be Disastrous If people knew that a balanced budget amendment would be a suicide pact we US citizens agree to, I wonder if there would be so much interest in it. Maybe the citizens of the US are tired of leading the world, and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24035,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033\/revisions\/24035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}