{"id":133,"date":"2003-12-08T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2003\/12\/133.html"},"modified":"2003-12-08T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T12:19:00","slug":"sometimes-my-head-just-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/12\/sometimes-my-head-just-hurts.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<br \/>Sometimes my head just hurts.  On Friday it was announced that James Baker was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/article.cfm?objectID=2B16716C-4427-406B-9030A2A601B69111\">tapped<\/a> to lead a campaign to get Iraq out from under a &#8220;crushing $120 billion debt&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush had this to say about it:  &#8220;The future of the Iraqi people should not be mortgaged to the enormous burden of debt incurred to enrich Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But apparently the American people should be mortgaged to the enormous burden of debt incurred to enrich the Bush regime?  Has anyone told George that we have a $7 trillion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brillig.com\/debt_clock\/\">debt<\/a>?  That in the 4th quarter of this year it has risen a steady $2.12 billion per DAY!!  Do the math.  There are 120 days in a quarter which meanes that we have incurred double the total debt of the Iraqis just since October.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon&#8230; how stupid are we suppossed to be?  This debt is stimulating our economy, but crushing theirs?  Granted, the situations are different, but the economic levers don&#8217;t operate differently, just at different scales.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Sometimes my head just hurts. On Friday it was announced that James Baker was tapped to lead a campaign<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/12\/sometimes-my-head-just-hurts.html\" title=\"Read \">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}