{"id":8540,"date":"2011-05-25T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2011-05-25T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T19:17:25","slug":"chart-of-the-moment-bush-tax-cuts-wars-largest-cause-by-far-of-ballooning-federal-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8540","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Moment: Bush Tax Cuts, Wars Largest Cause (By Far) of Ballooning Federal Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/05\/chart-bush-policies-dominant-cause-of-debt.php\">Via TPM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/05\/chart-bush-policies-dominant-cause-of-debt.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FederalDeficitChart_BushTaxCutsWar_052511.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>By way of reminder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/askfactcheck\/during_the_clinton_administration_was_the_federal.html\">George W. Bush inherited a federal budget <i>surplus<\/i> from Bill Clinton<\/a> in 2000, when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had forecast that, at that rate, the debt would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/running-in-the-red-how-the-us-on-the-road-to-surplus-detoured-to-massive-debt\/2011\/04\/28\/AFFU7rNF_print.html\">entirely wiped out by 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via TPM: By way of reminder, George W. Bush inherited a federal budget surplus from Bill Clinton in 2000, when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had forecast that, at that rate, the debt would be entirely wiped out by 2012. Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,135,405,390,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-afghanistan","category-bush-legacy","category-economy","category-iraq-war","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","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=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}