{"id":9964,"date":"2010-04-12T06:06:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2010-04-11T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T14:07:32","slug":"around-the-mob-national-debt-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9964","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: National Debt Busters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry about the week off from the MOB tour.\u00a0 No way around it last week!<\/p>\n

Today’s stop, National Debt Busters<\/em><\/a> is written by someone tersely named “Skydancer”, whose mission seems to have been, since 2007, focusing on the national debt.<\/p>\n

They’ve been posting roughly weekly for three years – and now that the topic is Agenda Item #1 for the entire loyal opposition, I’m going to register my hope that they kick things into high gear.<\/p>\n

Typical fare:<\/a><\/p>\n

Ever since Barack Obama became president and began advocating such big-dollar federal programs as an economic stimulus and health care reform, Republicans have gained increasing political traction with warnings to voters about the growing national debt.<\/p>\n

On March 24, 2010, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, published an op-ed in the\u00a0Des Moines Register<\/em> that was timed to coincide with a March 25 visit by Obama to Iowa City, Iowa. Obama visited Iowa City to tout the health care bill two days after signing it into law.<\/p>\n

Boehner’s column — titled, “Why Republicans will fight to repeal health-care takeover” — was a broadside against the newly signed bill, featuring a wide range of statistics. In it, he asserted that the health care bill “is a recipe for further fiscal disaster at a time when our national debt ($12.7 trillion today) is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy (about $15 trillion) in just two more years.”<\/p>\n

That struck us as a huge amount, so we decided to take a closer look.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, he does.<\/p>\n

Make National Debt Busters<\/i> a stop in your fiscal rounds of the MOB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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