{"id":5652,"date":"2011-11-22T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2011-11-22T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:55:19","slug":"5652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/5652\/","title":{"rendered":"national debt through the kitchen table lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS IS SCARY STUFF!!! Dan Snipes, shared his calculations of our national debt in easy to relate to terms. It looks like the recent budget cuts aren&#8217;t even 1\/2 a drop in the bucket!<br \/>\n\u2022 U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000<br \/>\n\u2022 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000<br \/>\n\u2022 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000<br \/>\n\u2022 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000<br \/>\n\u2022 Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000<br \/>\nNow let\u2019s remove 8 zeros and pretend it\u2019s a household budget.<br \/>\n\u2022 Annual family income: $21,700<br \/>\n\u2022 Money the family spent: $38,200<br \/>\n\u2022 New debt on the credit card: $16,500<br \/>\n\u2022 Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710<br \/>\n\u2022 Total budget cuts: $385<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5656\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/5652\/obama\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obama1.jpg?fit=814%2C89&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"814,89\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"obama\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obama1.jpg?fit=300%2C32&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obama1.jpg?fit=814%2C89&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5656 alignleft\" title=\"obama\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obama1.jpg?resize=570%2C62\" alt=\"obama\" width=\"570\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obama1.jpg?w=814&amp;ssl=1 814w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obama1.jpg?resize=300%2C32&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS IS SCARY STUFF!!! Dan Snipes, shared his calculations of our national debt in easy to relate to terms. It looks like the recent budget cuts aren&#8217;t even 1\/2 a drop in the bucket! \u2022 U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 \u2022 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 \u2022 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 \u2022 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 \u2022 Recent budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2gEQ0-5652","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}