{"id":492,"date":"2009-12-21T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-12-21T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:28:13","slug":"the-national-debt-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"The National Debt Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debt beyond one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to pay is a mechanism of slavery and oppression, not freedom.&#160; The huge US national debt, particularly that held by foreign powers, represents a surrender of national freedom and sovereignty to those who hold that debt. The rate at which the US national debt is increasing has gone beyond alarming. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P5yxFtTwDcc\" target=\"_blank\">This little video<\/a> provides a new way to look at that extraordinary rate of increase.<\/p>\n<p> <center><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P5yxFtTwDcc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P5yxFtTwDcc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7362d218-ce0d-4a17-903d-ac8ac682f242\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Debt\" rel=\"tag\">Debt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/National+Debt\" rel=\"tag\">National Debt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deficit+Spending\" rel=\"tag\">Deficit Spending<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debt beyond one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to pay is a mechanism of slavery and oppression, not freedom.&#160; The huge US national debt, particularly that held by foreign powers, represents a surrender of national freedom and sovereignty to those who hold that debt. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[97,99,28,98],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-video","tag-debt","tag-deficit-spending","tag-freedom","tag-national-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}