{"id":2821,"date":"2011-07-15T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2014-04-06T23:55:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T23:55:32","slug":"hammer-meet-head-of-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/hammer-meet-head-of-nail\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer, Meet the Head of the Nail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/morning-jay-how-understand-debt-ceiling-battle_576871.html?page=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jay Cost in the Weekly Standard<\/a> echos GorT&#8217;s belief and presents the details in a more comprehensive way than GorT could do.&nbsp; So take a look at his graph here and click through to really understand the debt ceiling battle.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Private-252520GDP-252520Per-252520Capita-252520Versus-252520Entitlements-252520Per-252520Capita_0_0.gif\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"228px\" m$=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Private-252520GDP-252520Per-252520Capita-252520Versus-252520Entitlements-252520Per-252520Capita_0_0-300x213.gif\" width=\"320px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Cost in the Weekly Standard echos GorT&#8217;s belief and presents the details in a more comprehensive way than GorT could do.&nbsp; So take a look at his graph here and click through to really understand the debt ceiling battle.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/hammer-meet-head-of-nail\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[626,94],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-debt","category-welfare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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