{"id":14568,"date":"2017-10-27T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14568"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:59:11","slug":"house-passes-4-trillion-budget-ahead-of-tax-reform-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/house-passes-4-trillion-budget-ahead-of-tax-reform-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes $4 Trillion Budget Ahead of Tax Reform Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
Wow. 4 Trillion. How much of that will end up as debt? How long can we sustain spending more than we have before the bank breaks? Already we pay more to service the debt than we do for EDUCATION. It’s a much bigger problem than they are letting on, and as the debt grows and interest rates increase, it will compound EXPONENTIALLY.
\nThis is clearly an irresponsible budget, and I haven’t even looked at any details. I’m sure the military is over-funded…though how much is too much when complete annihilation is at stake?
\nBut hey…at least #Congress did SOMETHING, right?!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ti.me\/2xt9OYP<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. 4 Trillion. How much of that will end up as debt? How long can we sustain spending more than we have before the bank breaks? Already we pay more to service the debt than we do for EDUCATION. It’s a much bigger problem than they are letting on, and as the debt grows and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-14568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9286,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/7-facts-you-didnt-know-about-money-the-motley-fool\/","url_meta":{"origin":14568,"position":0},"title":"7 Facts You Didn’t Know About Money — The Motley Fool","date":"September 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's fact #8, just learned that our National Debt is now equal to more than 25% of ALL the money in the world. And growing. That should scare you. \"It has been estimated that all of the world's money, including currency, assets held in financial institutions, and so on, is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15914,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/analysis-putin-says-he-wishes-the-soviet-union-had-not-collapsed-many-russians-agree\/","url_meta":{"origin":14568,"position":1},"title":"Analysis | Putin says he wishes the Soviet Union had not collapsed. Many Russians agree.","date":"March 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"For those who may not recall history, the Soviet Union ended because it couldn't support itself, primarily because it wiped out it's treasury fighting an endless, unwinnable war in Afghanistan. Sound at all familiar? Like anyone we know? Let this number sink in: (in Dr. Evil's voice, fingernail in tooth)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9075,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/why-68-of-republicans-think-this-election-could-wreck-the-economy\/","url_meta":{"origin":14568,"position":2},"title":"Why 68% of Republicans think this election could wreck the economy","date":"September 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks Captain Obvious, but News Flash: The Economy is already fucked...we just haven't realized it yet. It's like when you get poisoned when there is no antidote. Just a matter of time. Once the interest rate starts rising on nearly $20 Trillion (and growing) US Debt, there's no coming back.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10766,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/remembrance-day-around-the-world-in-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":14568,"position":3},"title":"Remembrance Day around the world – in pictures","date":"November 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you know today is a holiday around the world? Well, at least across the pond. We may call it by different names: Veteran's Day, Armistice Day, Remembrance Day. But it all says the same thing: \"Thank God, and the brave men who died fighting, The War is Over!\" When\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16905,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/mcconnell-sets-his-sights-on-medicare-and-social-security-saying-the-debt-is-very-disturbing\/","url_meta":{"origin":14568,"position":4},"title":"McConnell sets his sights on Medicare and Social Security, saying the debt is \u2018very disturbing\u2019","date":"October 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As a Republican, he SHOULD be. VERY disturbed. $800 Billion deficit, plus rising interest rates, means the $21 TRILLION debt is going to skyrocket at a rate unseen in decades. Ironic because the #GOP is supposed to be the \"fiscal hawks\", \"conservatives\". Yet Trump's posse is outspending every prior year\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "#blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15388,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/mcconnell-plans-for-shutdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":14568,"position":5},"title":"McConnell plans for shutdown","date":"January 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"They've accomplished nothing for 6 years except obstruction, and done worse than nothing since. Now, the blame game starts, and both sides blames the other for it. Do your fucking jobs! You can't just keep throwing shit at the other side, like two tribe of monkeys at war, while all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}