{"id":44275,"date":"2014-01-10T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44275"},"modified":"2014-01-10T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:54:45","slug":"who-is-going-to-pay-for-the-now-17-trillion-in-national-debt-lets-take-care-of-this-so-our-children-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/01\/10\/who-is-going-to-pay-for-the-now-17-trillion-in-national-debt-lets-take-care-of-this-so-our-children-dont-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is going to pay for the now $17+ trillion in national debt? Let&#8217;s take care of this so our children don&#8217;t have to."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"U.S. Debt Clock -- be forewarned, this will depress you.\" href=\"http:\/\/usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44276\" alt=\"USDebtClock-AsOf1-10-14\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/USDebtClock-AsOf1-10-14.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/USDebtClock-AsOf1-10-14.jpg 1019w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/USDebtClock-AsOf1-10-14-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>As of January 10, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Who is going to pay for the now $17+ trillion in national debt? Let&#8217;s bite the bullet and whittle this down as quickly as possible &#8212; so our children don&#8217;t have to (nor their children either).<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Be forewarned!!!\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If you let your eyes and mind take in how fast the debt is increasing, it will amaze &#8212; and <em>depress<\/em> &#8212; you.\u00a0 <strong>Are we seeing a nation in decline right in front of our faces?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A true or false question for the Econ Students\/Faculty out there:\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>If we don&#8217;t get a handle on this, 100% of every dollar will have to be applied towards paying our national debt.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If true, what can we do to turn this around, ASAP?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">If false, why is it false and what are the more relevant concerns?<br \/>\nWhat are the ramifications of this on the American people? On people throughout the world? On education? On healthcare? Other?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 10, 2014 &nbsp; From DSC: Who is going to pay for the now $17+ trillion in national debt? Let&#8217;s bite the bullet and whittle this down as quickly as possible &#8212; so our children don&#8217;t have to (nor their children either). Be forewarned!!!\u00a0 If you let your eyes and mind take in [&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":[387,306,74,285,321,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-leadership","category-legislation-legislatures","category-united-states","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44275","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=44275"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44287,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44275\/revisions\/44287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}