{"id":13058,"date":"2005-11-17T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/w-breaks-a-record\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T22:27:00","slug":"w-breaks-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/w-breaks-a-record\/","title":{"rendered":"W Breaks A Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/cardoza\/BlueDogs\/history.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Blue Dog Coalition&rdquo;<\/a> made a press release claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/apps\/list\/hearing\/ca18_cardoza\/bush_administration_breaks_record.html\" target=\"_blank\">W&rsquo;s administration has &ldquo;borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Throughout the first 224 years (1776-2000) of our nation\u2019s history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions according to the U.S. Treasury Department.  In the past four years alone (2001-2005), the Bush Administration has borrowed a staggering $1.05 trillion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/?\/weblog\/posts\/bush_breaks_a_record\/\" target=\"_blank\">The J-Walk Blog<\/a> notes, at least [W will] be remembered for something.&ldquo;  If only it was just this&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/W\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">W<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113198575287537640?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &ldquo;Blue Dog Coalition&rdquo; made a press release claiming that W&rsquo;s administration has &ldquo;borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined.&rdquo; Throughout the first 224 years (1776-2000) of our nation\u2019s history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions according to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/w-breaks-a-record\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;W Breaks A Record&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}