{"id":7492,"date":"2009-10-31T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T21:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2009-11-08T16:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T00:41:49","slug":"buy-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7492","title":{"rendered":"Buy the Numbers…"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube views of Rise of the Tea Bags<\/i><\/a>, as of right now, since we posted it on Wednesday: 3,936<\/strike> 4,711<\/strike> 5,691<\/strike> 6,843<\/strike> 7,851<\/strike> 8,072<\/strike> 10,639<\/b> (Be the 4,000th<\/strike> 5,000th<\/strike> 6,000th<\/strike> 7,000th<\/strike> 8,000th<\/strike> 9,000th<\/strike> 11,000th!<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Followers of The BRAD BLOG on Twitter<\/a>, as of right now: 497<\/strike> 539<\/b>
\n(Be the 500th!<\/strike> Thanks to #500, @silver02suby<\/a>. Be the 600th!<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Cost of national defense authorization bill for 2010 only<\/i>, as signed by Obama<\/a> on Wednesday without objection from tea baggers: $680 billion<\/b><\/p>\n

Approximate cost of proposed U.S. House health insurance bill per year (though not<\/i> reported this way by media<\/a>): $90 billion<\/b><\/p>\n

Cost of U.S. House health insurance bill over next ten years<\/i>, as always reported by the media and vigorously objected to by tea baggers, despite CBO finding that it will actually reduce<\/i> the deficit<\/a>: Just under $900 billion<\/b><\/p>\n

Approximate cost of defense authorization over next ten years<\/i> (though never<\/i> reported this way<\/a> by media): $7 trillion<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Approximate savings<\/i> to tax-payers from U.S. House health insurance bill over next ten years<\/a>: $100 billion<\/b><\/p>\n

People killed by U.S. defense operations each year: n\/a<\/b><\/p>\n

Americans who die for lack of health insurance each year: 45,000<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Cost of misplaced tea bagger\/media priorities: priceless<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YouTube views of Rise of the Tea Bags, as of right now, since we posted it on Wednesday: 3,936 4,711 5,691 6,843 7,851 8,072 10,639 (Be the 4,000th 5,000th 6,000th 7,000th 8,000th 9,000th 11,000th!) Followers of The BRAD BLOG on Twitter, as of right now: 497 539 (Be the 500th! Thanks to #500, @silver02suby. Be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,26,272,288,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-brad-blog","category-dept-of-defense","category-health-care","category-mainstream-media-failure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}