{"id":2337,"date":"2014-12-02T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2014-12-02T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T23:18:20","slug":"five-complete-lies-about-americas-new-18-trillion-debt-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2337","title":{"rendered":"Five complete lies about America\u2019s new $18 trillion debt level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovereignman.com\/trends\/five-complete-lies-about-americas-new-18-trillion-debt-level-15661\/\">Five complete lies about America\u2019s new $18 trillion debt level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">On October 22, 1981, the government of the United States of America accumulated an astounding $1 TRILLION in debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">At that point, it had taken the country 74,984 days (more than 205 years) to accumulate its first trillion in debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">It would take less than five years to accumulate its second trillion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">And as the US government just hit $18 trillion in debt on Friday afternoon, it has taken a measly 403 days to accumulate its most recent trillion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">There\u2019s so much misinformation and propaganda about this; let\u2019s examine some of the biggest lies out there about the US debt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five complete lies about America\u2019s new $18 trillion debt level. On October 22, 1981, the government of the United States of America accumulated an astounding $1 TRILLION in debt. At that point, it had taken the country 74,984 days (more than 205 years) to accumulate its first trillion in debt. It would take less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[200,1578,1577,827,1576],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-default","tag-net-debt","tag-politicians","tag-united-states","tag-us-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}