{"id":3934,"date":"2011-04-08T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T09:29:09","slug":"you_call_this_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3934","title":{"rendered":"You Call This Global Leadership?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/suddendebt.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/you-call-this-global-leadership.html\">Suddent Debt:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The US government is about to be shut down in the next 24 hours over the federal budget impasse.  Here are the only numbers you need:<br \/>\nFederal spending is approx. $3.7 trillion, the deficit this year alone is projected at $1.4 trillion &#8211; and the politicians are squabbling over spending cuts amounting to $33-40 billion;  that&#8217;s  1% of spending and 2.9% of the deficit.  You gotta be joking, right?  <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cha.house.gov\/images\/operations_docs\/notice_non_essential_employees.pdf\">Sample Notice to Non-Essential Employees<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/campaign_desk\/politicos_david_rogers_owning_the_budget_beat.php?page=all&#038;print=true\">Politico&#8217;s David Rogers Owning the Budget Beat<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/42452207\"> US Going Same Route as Greece, Portugal: Economist<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/suddendebt.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/you-call-this-global-leadership.html\">Suddent Debt:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The US government is about to be shut down in the next 24 hours over the federal budget impasse.  Here are the only numbers you need:<br \/>\nFederal spending is approx. $3.7 trillion, the deficit this year alone is projected at $1.4 trillion &#8211; and the politicians are squabbling over spending cuts amounting to $33-40 billion;  that&#8217;s  1% of spending and 2.9% of the deficit.  You gotta be joking, right?  <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cha.house.gov\/images\/operations_docs\/notice_non_essential_employees.pdf\">Sample Notice to Non-Essential Employees<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/campaign_desk\/politicos_david_rogers_owning_the_budget_beat.php?page=all&#038;print=true\">Politico&#8217;s David Rogers Owning the Budget Beat<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/42452207\"> US Going Same Route as Greece, Portugal: Economist<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}