{"id":1084,"date":"2007-10-01T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2007-10-01T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:45:30","slug":"3496000000000-of-public-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"$34,960,000,000.00 of public debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little calculation. If the Red Plan costs are $437,000,000 and Duluth has 10,000 students that means, divide the bigger figure by the smaller&#8230;..Ah, that&#8217;s easy enough. It means we will be spending $47,000 per student over the next twenty years for new buildings. <\/p>\n<p>Now lets see, if Duluth has 10,000 students and the state, as a whole, has 800,000 students. and we multiply our spending per student on the Red Plan, by all 800,000 Minnesota students we come up with&#8230;Well, well. $35 billion in spending over the next twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of public indebtedness. How many other cities would follow Duluth&#8217;s suit if they were given half a chance?  Did the state legislature really mean for this to happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little calculation. If the Red Plan costs are $437,000,000 and Duluth has 10,000 students that means, divide the bigger figure by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}