{"id":8784,"date":"2011-09-26T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T22:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8784"},"modified":"2011-09-26T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T03:32:12","slug":"chart-of-the-moment-who-increased-the-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8784","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Moment: &#8216;Who Increased the Debt?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a friendly reminder. As originally posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/speakerpelosi\/5684032538\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\">on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)&#8217;s flickr stream<\/a> last May&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/speakerpelosi\/5684032538\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WhoIncreasedTheDebt_051911.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So who are the &#8220;big spenders&#8221; again?<\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/drgrist\/statuses\/118431380442062848\"><i>Hat-tip David Roberts.<\/i><\/a>]\n<p><center><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/em> The original graphic we used above had been posted by Pelosi&#8217;s office on 5\/3\/11, even though they had updated the graphic on 5\/19\/11. We had linked to the updated one, but had posted the older one here (which illustrates the same idea, though George W. Bush&#8217;s increase to the debt was seen as 115% versus 86% in the update, and Barack Obama was responsible for increasing the debt by 16% versus 35% in the updated version, which is now posted above.) Thanks to longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8784&#038;preview=true#comment-447500\">BRAD BLOG commenter Soul Rebel<\/a> for catching the mistake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a friendly reminder. As originally posted on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)&#8217;s flickr stream last May&#8230; So who are the &#8220;big spenders&#8221; again? [Hat-tip David Roberts.] * * * UPDATE The original graphic we used above had been posted by Pelosi&#8217;s office on 5\/3\/11, even though they had updated the graphic on 5\/19\/11. We had [&hellip;]<\/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":[192,239,453,405,390,415],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-bill-clinton","category-bush-legacy","category-economy","category-ronald-reagan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784","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=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}