{"id":1897,"date":"2009-04-08T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2009-04-08T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:30:17","slug":"is-more-spending-the-answer-to-our-economic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/is-more-spending-the-answer-to-our-economic-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Is More Spending the Answer to Our Economic Problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned last week that the Government and Federal Reserve had spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion<\/a>, here’s video from stopspendingourfuture.org<\/a> that helps put that in perspective:<\/p>\n

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In short, we have spent more bailouts than we did on World War 2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned last week that the Government and Federal Reserve had spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, here’s video from stopspendingourfuture.org that helps put that in perspective: In short, we have spent more bailouts than we did on World War 2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[128,126,595,342,113,114,596,492,454],"class_list":{"0":"post-1897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy","7":"tag-aig","8":"tag-bank-of-america","9":"tag-bear-stearns","10":"tag-citigroup","11":"tag-fannie-mae","12":"tag-freddie-mac","13":"tag-general-electric","14":"tag-mortgage-bailout","15":"tag-stimulus-plan","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-uB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1853,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/holy-crap-128-trillion-spent-lent-or-committed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1897,"position":0},"title":"Holy Crap: $12.8 Trillion Spent, Lent or Committed???","author":"Jeff","date":"April 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From Bloomberg News: March 31 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s. 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