{"id":34663,"date":"2012-11-28T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=34663"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T19:20:59","slug":"executing-on-mary-meekers-vision-for-america-usa-inc-michael-tchong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/11\/28\/executing-on-mary-meekers-vision-for-america-usa-inc-michael-tchong\/","title":{"rendered":"Executing on Mary Meeker\u2019s Vision for America: USA Inc. [Michael Tchong]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2012\/11\/27\/executing-on-mary-meekers-vision-for-america-usa-inc?\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Executing on Mary Meeker\u2019s Vision for America: USA Inc.<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from readwrite.com by Michael Tchong<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In true Meeker style, USA Inc. is a meticulously crafted, chart-heavy presentation. This one, though, paints a bleak picture. Most startling: America\u2019s entitlement costs accounted for 56% of spending in fiscal 2011, 40 years ago it was just 25%. Here is more food for thought:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expenses have exceeded revenue in all but five of the past 47 years.<\/li>\n<li>1 in 50 Americans needed Medicaid when it was created in 1965. Today, 1 in 6 do.<\/li>\n<li>Unfunded and underfunded entitlement liabilities now total $66 trillion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/01\/mary-meekers-state-of-the-usa-inc-address\/#presentation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meeker\u2019s Address on the State of USA Inc.<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from NYT by Michael De La Merced &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/fullscreen\/111764301?access_key=key-2avhdvo0vjm9ck0f7uvq\" target=\"_blank\">presentation here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executing on Mary Meeker\u2019s Vision for America: USA Inc. &#8212; from readwrite.com by Michael Tchong Excerpt: In true Meeker style, USA Inc. is a meticulously crafted, chart-heavy presentation. This one, though, paints a bleak picture. Most startling: America\u2019s entitlement costs accounted for 56% of spending in fiscal 2011, 40 years ago it was just 25%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,306,480,321,11],"tags":[349,728,573],"class_list":["post-34663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-society","category-united-states","category-vision-possibilities","tag-economicsbusiness","tag-united-states","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34685,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663\/revisions\/34685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}