{"id":483,"date":"2004-02-12T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-12T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T04:01:07","slug":"why-theres-no-left-left-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/12\/why-theres-no-left-left-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Why There’s No Left Left, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAnd why the wishy-washy Kerry isn’t likely to win. <\/p>\n

Read an excerpt<\/a> of Myths of Rich and Poor<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

Or buy the book<\/a> (and help out Antiwar.com)!<\/p>\n

Read “Why There’s No Left Left<\/a>” Part I.<\/p>\n

To which a reader replies suggesting that the rise in the US standard of living is due to personal debt: “Cash or Charge?<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But more ominous than personal debt is the government’s debt, which some analysts claim is approaching $100,000 per American<\/a> (not per taxpayer<\/i>, per man, woman and child) if Social Security obligations are included. How is a nation of people living paycheck to paycheck gonna pay down $100K per person? Not to worry, the same birdbrains and thieves who brought us the expensive, dangerous and (some of us would say) unethical everything-but-neutrality, fund’em-then-bomb’em foreign policy are hard at work, uh… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And why the wishy-washy Kerry isn’t likely to win. Read an excerpt of Myths of Rich and Poor.” Or buy the book (and help out Antiwar.com)! Read “Why There’s No Left Left” Part I. To which a reader replies suggesting that the rise in the US standard of living is due to personal debt: “Cash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-483","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\/483","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}