{"id":558,"date":"2010-12-09T03:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T03:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=558"},"modified":"2010-12-09T03:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T03:39:31","slug":"subtraction-vs-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"subtraction vs. addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national debt is now $13.7 trillion. \u00a0 The interest on it is approximately $387 billion, <em>a day<\/em>. \u00a0 The package that was just tentatively approved in D.C. will cost about $900 billion <em>more<\/em> \u00a0 over the next two years &#8212; to be financed entirely by adding to the national debt, according to a <em>New York Times<\/em> \u00a0 article. \u00a0 Ok, I mean it wouldn&#8217;t take a Ph.d from MIT to figure out that, oh, we might want to <em>subtract<\/em> \u00a0 from the national debt at this point. \u00a0 \u00a0 On a campaign stop in Delphos, Ohio, I told the <em>Delphos News<\/em>  \u00a0 it is our belief that we should have &#8220;someone in D.C. with a calculator that works.&#8221; \u00a0 Given this latest development, prior to even using the calculator, it might be good to have someone in D.C.: who understands the difference between subtraction and addition. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The $387 billion in interest each day means our urban war zones are being tremendously shorted help; our environmental programs (to reverse imminent threats like global warming) are being tremendously shorted; people starving to death, dying of malaria, etc., in the developing countries are being tremendously shorted&#8230; \u00a0 We, most of us, should be tightening our belts and paying this national debt off as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national debt is now $13.7 trillion. \u00a0 The interest on it is approximately $387 billion, a day. \u00a0 The package that was just tentatively approved in D.C. will cost about $900 billion more \u00a0 over the next two years <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=558\"><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-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}