{"id":6900,"date":"2011-07-25T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:30:55","slug":"rome-is-burning-as-is-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=6900","title":{"rendered":"Rome, Your Money, Both Burning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6901\" title=\"moneyfire\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/moneyfire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gallup bravely polled Americans for their reasons as to why they do not want the debt ceiling raised, which unsurprsingly included sound economic principles like \u201cthe (black) president should reel in his spending&#8221; and just \u201cimmigrants\u201d among their reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t gag over some of the verbatim responses written by respondents to the Gallup\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/148547\/Own-Words-Americans-Views-Raising-Debt-Ceiling.aspx\">survey<\/a> (with spelling\/syntax fixed by Gallup, sadly):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>IT INCREASES INFLATION, AND DECREASES THE VALUE OF OUR DOLLAR<br \/>\nDON\u2019T NEED ANY MORE TAXES<br \/>\nIT\u2019S NOT RESOLVING THE ONGOING PROBLEM<br \/>\nWE HAVE ENOUGH DEBT ALREADY<br \/>\nOUR PRESIDENT SHOULD REEL IN HIS SPENDING. PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING<br \/>\nRAISING THE DEBT CEILING WOULD HURT THE ECONOMY<br \/>\nBAD MANAGEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT<br \/>\nWE CAN\u2019T AFFORD ADDITIONAL DEBT<br \/>\nWE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO OUR PAY OUR DEBTS BEFORE SPENDING MORE<br \/>\nIMMIGRANTS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from Wonkette via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/148547\/Own-Words-Americans-Views-Raising-Debt-Ceiling.aspx\">Gallup<\/a><br \/>\nThese are literally the flash cards for every Fox &#8220;News&#8221; broadcast.\u00a0This one is a fucking doozy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OUR PRESIDENT SHOULD REEL IN HIS SPENDING. PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;People are stupid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup bravely polled Americans for their reasons as to why they do not want the debt ceiling raised, which unsurprsingly included sound economic principles like \u201cthe (black) president should reel in his spending&#8221; and just \u201cimmigrants\u201d among their reasoning. Don&#8217;t gag over some of the verbatim responses written by respondents to the Gallup\u00a0survey (with spelling\/syntax [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[713,712,711],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-soapbox","tag-gallup-roll-debt-limit","tag-morons-debt-ceiling","tag-people-debt-ceiling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6915,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}