{"id":4054,"date":"2011-09-21T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2011-09-21T21:22:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:22:03","slug":"andrew-sullivan-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Sullivan asks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/09\/a-reminder-from-harpers.html\">who owns the debt?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontporchrepublic.com\/2011\/09\/pining-for-the-fleshpots-of-reagan\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FrontPorchRepublic+%28Front+Porch+Republic%29\">Jason Peters<\/a> relays facts collected by Harper&#8217;s Index:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Seventy-one percent of current U.S. debt was accumulated during Republican presidential terms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Two-thirds of debt-ceiling elevations since 1960 have been signed into law by Republican presidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; In 1961 the percentage of corporate profits paid in taxes was nearly forty-one; now it is less than eleven.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Seventy-five percent of the increase in corporate profit margins since 2001 has come from depressed wages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;who owns the debt? Jason Peters relays facts collected by Harper&#8217;s Index: &#8212; Seventy-one percent of current U.S. debt was accumulated during Republican presidential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,31,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054"}],"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=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}