{"id":1140,"date":"2011-07-14T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=613"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:53:28","slug":"barn-painting-debt-ceiling-hay-baling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"barn painting, debt ceiling, hay baling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue on our farm sabbatical in western Ohio. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve spent the last three days painting a barn. \u00a0 While up on the ladder, I got to thinking about the debt ceiling debate. \u00a0 One of the most recent D.C. chess moves, if you will, is the Republicans saying they may accept a &#8220;moderate deal&#8221; that would call for $2 trillion in cuts over 10 years. \u00a0 The current interest on the $14.3 trillion dollar debt we have is a whopping: $367 billion a day. \u00a0 So if you do the math&#8230; given the interest compounding daily, $2 trillion in cuts over 10 years would, well,  \u00a0just keep us treading water, if that. \u00a0 Frankly, we need someone in D.C. with a calculator that works. \u00a0 And maybe we need someone in D.C. with a ladder, to rise above it all. \u00a0 And to think. \u00a0 Speaking of money&#8230; \u00a0 msnbc.com just published an article noting that 2011 is already the costliest year for natural disasters worldwide, ever. \u00a0 And we&#8217;re only <em>halfway<\/em> \u00a0 into the year. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I&#8217;m off to bale some hay this afternoon, and think some more. \u00a0 On a stop at the Harry Truman Museum in Missouri on a previous campaign tour, we learned he used to do a lot of his thinking out in the fields of his farm. \u00a0 Well if it worked for Harry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue on our farm sabbatical in western Ohio. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve spent the last three days painting a barn. \u00a0 While up on the ladder, I got to thinking about the debt ceiling debate. \u00a0 One of the most recent <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1140\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}