{"id":15053,"date":"2010-11-05T05:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T10:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15053"},"modified":"2010-11-05T05:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T10:47:47","slug":"debt-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15053","title":{"rendered":"Debt History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff writing at National Debt Busters writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaldebtbusters.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/presidential-administrations-and-their.html\">the history of the national debt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do the Presidential Administrations compare?<\/p>\n<p>President George Washington through President Gerald Ford, Presidents 1-38, 1791-1976<\/p>\n<p>Debt Increase: $707,142,528,417.78<\/p>\n<p>President James Earl Carter, 39th President, 1977-1980<\/p>\n<p>Debt Increase: $276,666,000,000.00<\/p>\n<p>President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President, 1981-1988<\/p>\n<p>Debt Increase: $1,672,127,712,041.16<\/p>\n<p>President George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President, 1989-1992<\/p>\n<p>Debt Increase: $1,462,282,943,480.50<\/p>\n<p>President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, 42nd Presidnet, 1993-2000<\/p>\n<p>Debt Increase: $1,609,557,554,365.20<\/p>\n<p>President George Walker Bush, 43rd President, 2001-2008<\/p>\n<p>Debt Increase: $4,899,100,310,608.44<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President, 2009-present<\/p>\n<p>Debt Increase: $3,031,935,408,476.43 (as of 10\/28\/2010 report on TreasuryDirect.gov)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama is on track to <em>triple <\/em>Bush&#8217;s already-criminal debt load &#8211; and that&#8217;s <em>if <\/em>Obamacare&#8217;s bill comes in where they project it will, which it will not.<\/p>\n<p>The new GOP House has its work cut out for it.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all make sure they get to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff writing at National Debt Busters writes about the history of the national debt: How do the Presidential Administrations compare? President George Washington through President Gerald Ford, Presidents 1-38, 1791-1976 Debt Increase: $707,142,528,417.78 President James Earl Carter, 39th President, 1977-1980 Debt Increase: $276,666,000,000.00 President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President, 1981-1988 Debt Increase: $1,672,127,712,041.16 President George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,68,35,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-money","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}