{"id":1741,"date":"2011-07-20T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T08:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2011-10-19T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T08:32:53","slug":"a-balanced-budget-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/07\/a-balanced-budget-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Balanced Budget Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/the-debt-ceiling-and-the-balanced-budget-amendment\/\">piece from the CATO Institute <\/a>on why the US needs a Balanced Budget Amendment. \u00a0 It includes this awesome graphic illustrating the way our national debt has grown over the last thirty-years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1742\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/w-debt15-correction-g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1742\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1742 \" title=\"w-debt15-correction-g\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/w-debt15-correction-g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/w-debt15-correction-g.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/w-debt15-correction-g-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Growth of our National debt<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\nAfter looking at that can anyone doubt that America as a nation needs to quit borrowing money and spending it like a drunk sailor on Liberty?\u00c2\u00a0 The issue with America, specifically our government, is that they have gotten addicted to spending money we don&#8217;t have. \u00a0 I have said for years that if I ran my personal accounts like the government does theirs I would be in jail for fraud. \u00a0 It is past time for our elected leaders to be adults and get spending and borrowing under control before we are spending our great-grandkids money if we are not doing that already.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is it a bad thing if our government is forced to spend money responsibility through the enactment of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution?\u00c2\u00a0 Can anyone answer that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent piece from the CATO Institute on why the US needs a Balanced Budget Amendment. \u00a0 It includes this awesome graphic illustrating the way our national debt has grown over the last thirty-years. \u00c2\u00a0 After looking at&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/07\/a-balanced-budget-amendment\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[158,159,160,100],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-history","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-national-debt","tag-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}