{"id":2989,"date":"2010-01-22T20:04:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2010-01-22T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:15:52","slug":"america-the-unbalanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/01\/22\/america-the-unbalanced\/","title":{"rendered":"America, the Unbalanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"America, the Unbalanced\" href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/america-the-unbalanced\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article on the <em>Economix Blog<\/em> of the NYT.\u00a0 The blog claims to have the purpose of <q>Explaining the Science of Everyday Life<\/q>.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of reasons why I like this article.\u00a0 It explains the dichotomy between what the American voter wants and what the voter is willing to do to get it.<\/p>\n<p>In the NYT article you also get a discussion of this graph:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" title=\"US Personal Savings Rate\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/01\/21\/business\/economy\/uwesavings.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The picture of me on the motorcycle is only of peripheral importance.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"This can't be Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_UxJaIAOr3Ks\/SHbFhodms7I\/AAAAAAAAAEE\/vcz4Otnsknk\/S700\/94851879-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In truth, this can&#8217;t be a picture of me.  See the sparks flying?  I only fall off my motorcycle when I am standing still.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, thanks again to MardyS for putting the link to the article on his <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Article as posted on Mardy's facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#\/Mard101?v=feed&#038;story_fbid=267099511660&#038;ref=mf\">facebook page<\/a>.   That&#8217;s where I first saw it and decided to add it to my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the article on the Economix Blog of the NYT.\u00a0 The blog claims to have the purpose of Explaining the Science of Everyday Life. There are lots of reasons why I like this article.\u00a0 It explains the dichotomy between what the American voter wants and what the voter is willing to do [&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-2989","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\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}