{"id":40,"date":"2003-07-15T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-15T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T05:41:08","slug":"even-if-it-bankrupts-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/15\/even-if-it-bankrupts-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Even if it bankrupts us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think we need to eliminate that pesky <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/servlet\/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com\/StoryFT\/FullStory&#038;c=StoryFT&#038;cid=1057562433465\" title=\"$455 billion deficit\">$455 billion deficit<\/a>?  It&#8217;s not as important as invading third world nations, liberating oppressed foreigners and ridding the world of evil-doers, <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=514&#038;e=4&#038;u=\/ap\/20030715\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/worsening_deficit\" title=\"says the administration\">says the administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul> &#8220;Restoring a balanced budget is an important priority for this administration,&#8221; White House budget director Joshua Bolten told reporters. &#8220;But a balanced budget is not a higher priority than winning the global war on terror, protecting the American homeland, or restoring economic growth and job creation.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how the gov&#8217;t expects to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2003\/0716\/p01s01-usec.html\" title=\"achieve the latter two by running record deficits\">achieve the latter two by running record deficits<\/a>, while giving more money to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2003\/0716\/p01s03-uspo.html\" title=\"failing intelligence bureaucracies\">failing intelligence bureaucracies<\/a> may exacerbate their inefficiencies.  Someone once said: <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/bourne-state.html\" title=\"War is the health of the\">War is the health of the<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think we need to eliminate that pesky $455 billion deficit? It&#8217;s not as important as invading third world nations, liberating oppressed foreigners and ridding the world of evil-doers, says the administration: &#8220;Restoring a balanced budget is an important priority for this administration,&#8221; White House budget director Joshua Bolten told reporters. &#8220;But a balanced budget is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}