{"id":9235,"date":"2011-04-16T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2011-04-16T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T14:23:07","slug":"cathartic-but-unconvincing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/cathartic-but-unconvincing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathartic, But Unconvincing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Correia <a href=\"http:\/\/larrycorreia.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/15\/happy-tax-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">goes off on government spending<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Government can\u2019t balance a checkbook. They\u2019re idiots. I know finance math. I do it for a living. And when I look at the numbers involved here, (and the interest!) it makes my head swim. Okay, for you non-accountants, when they start bandying numbers about on the news of 4 trillion such and such, and a hundred billion this and that, I know that your eyes glaze over. You think to yourself, \u201cOh, it is just the same old same old, bunch of politicians spending too much money, blah blah blah.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>NOOOOO!<\/p>\n<p>Saying that this is the same old same old, is like saying that gophers digging up your lawn is the same level of disaster as Krakatoa. Over the last couple of years we\u2019ve reached a whole new level of crazy. Our spending has gone insane. We\u2019re spending more money, faster, than all of mankind, throughout all of recorded human history. Economists aren\u2019t sure what\u2019s going to happen, because this has never happened before. Ever. On Earth. We\u2019ve strayed into strange new territory here and there are many possible outcomes if we don\u2019t stray the hell back out. And don\u2019t for a second think that any of those possible outcomes are remotely good. No. They range somewhere between the Great Depression and Mad Max.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right, of course, but the only way to convince somewhere between 51 and 80 percent of the country is for the end to occur, suddenly and <em><strong>unexpectedly!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And it will be the fault of the doomsayers even then.  Cassandra will be the first to the guillotine.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/118693\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Correia goes off on government spending: Government can\u2019t balance a checkbook. They\u2019re idiots. I know finance math. I do it for a living. And when I look at the numbers involved here, (and the interest!) it makes my head swim. Okay, for you non-accountants, when they start bandying numbers about on the news of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9237,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions\/9237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}