{"id":853,"date":"2003-03-05T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=853"},"modified":"2009-12-02T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T04:11:12","slug":"a-trillion-here-a-trillion-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"a trillion here, a trillion there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never hear the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20030304-77897880.htm\">debt limit<\/a> mentioned except in the context of raising it.  Why have a limit at all, if whenever it is approached Congress routinely raises it?  I notice that it is already higher than the trigger of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.com\/CapitolHill\/Lobby\/1221\/ult_res.htm\">Ultimatum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billstclair.com\/ult_res.htm\">Resolution<\/a>&#8221; that was going around State legislatures a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never hear the US debt limit mentioned except in the context of raising it. Why have a limit at all, if whenever it is approached Congress routinely raises it? I notice that it is already higher than the trigger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=853\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}