{"id":185340,"date":"2011-07-25T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/25\/the-debt-ceiling-showdown-is-blazing-saddles\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T03:16:00","slug":"the-debt-ceiling-showdown-is-blazing-saddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/25\/the-debt-ceiling-showdown-is-blazing-saddles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Debt Ceiling Showdown is Blazing Saddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"222\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n_yAh27O4jA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n_yAh27O4jA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"390\" height=\"222\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">One Move, and the N***** Gets It<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2011\/07\/we-discuss-the-manufactured-us-debt-crisis-at-the-real-news-network.html\">Yves Smith&#8217;s interview on The Real News Network<\/a>, is a cogent description of what is wring here, and makes reference to that classic scenes from Mel Brooks&#8217; masterpiece, <i>Blazing Saddles<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 8 minutes and 27 seconds well spent.<\/p>\n<p>Her thesis, and it is one that I support, is that the &#8220;Debt Ceiling Crisis&#8221; is largely an artifact of the Obama administration&#8217;s desire to <strike>gut<\/strike> cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s screw granny theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Move, and the N***** Gets It Yves Smith&#8217;s interview on The Real News Network, is a cogent description of what is wring here, and makes reference to that classic scenes from Mel Brooks&#8217; masterpiece, Blazing Saddles. It&#8217;s 8 minutes and 27 seconds well spent. Her thesis, and it is one that I support, is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1086,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-safety-net","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}