{"id":27738,"date":"2011-08-09T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dave_ramsey_puts_americas_debt_in_understandable_terms\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T21:30:00","slug":"dave_ramsey_puts_americas_debt_in_understandable_terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27738","title":{"rendered":"Seeking to put America&#39;s Debt in Understandable Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keithfitz-gerald.com\/dave-ramsey-puts-the-federal-budget-and-debt-into-numbers-we-can-understand\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Popular personal finance personality Dave Ramsey summed it up eloquently and simply: \u201cIf the US Government \u201d\u2039was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year and are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing big spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/dave-ramseys-simple-analogy-makes-it.html\">Alan Haley has a further discussion of this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Popular personal finance personality Dave Ramsey summed it up eloquently and simply: \u201cIf the US Government \u201d\u2039was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year and are $327,000 in credit card debt.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27738\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,149,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}