{"id":16515,"date":"2012-11-19T16:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16515"},"modified":"2012-11-22T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T04:22:16","slug":"geithners-solution-to-debt-crisis-eliminate-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16515\/geithners-solution-to-debt-crisis-eliminate-debt-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Geithner&#8217;s Solution to Debt Crisis: Eliminate Debt Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a certain logic to this. Why have laws, after all, that exist purely for the purpose of being broken? That being said, it&#8217;s telling that the Treasury Secretary (he of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/times247.com\/articles\/geithner-to-ryan-we-have-no-plan-for-debt-crisis-we-just-don-t-want-yours\" target=\"_blank\">We don&#8217;t have a plan, but we don&#8217;t like yours.&#8221;<\/a>) seems more interested in eroding even the weakest checks on the national debt than in doing something to arrest &#8212; or, heaven forfend, even reverse &#8212; it&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 425px; height: 350px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dJnLyEWganE\" \/><embed style=\"width: 425px; height: 350px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dJnLyEWganE\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a certain logic to this. Why have laws, after all, that exist purely for the purpose of being broken? That being said, it&#8217;s telling that the Treasury Secretary (he of &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a plan, but we don&#8217;t like yours.&#8221;) seems more interested in eroding even the weakest checks on the national debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3942,2232,1416,562,455,2616],"class_list":["post-16515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-al-hunt","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-deficits","tag-economics","tag-national-debt","tag-timothy-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16553,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515\/revisions\/16553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}