{"id":765,"date":"2017-01-06T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=765"},"modified":"2017-01-06T16:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T21:57:54","slug":"how-running-a-country-is-nothing-like-running-a-business-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"How Running A Country Is Nothing Like Running A Business: #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Trump hasn&#8217;t even been sworn in yet and I&#8217;ve got my first entry for this list:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-wall-mexico.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-wall-mexico.html?_r=0<\/a> in which he says we&#8217;re going to float the debt to build this massive wall (hopefully finding the least environmentally damaging route, eminent domaining the fewest people, and so on). Then we&#8217;ll get Mexico to pay for it. Umm &#8230;\u00a0so in business, this was basically the 2008 crash. We find a pool of people who aren&#8217;t going to pay, create debt on that not-a-payment, build a heap of stuff, and then act surprised when they fail to pay. Now, in the business world, you turn to the government to bail out your bad debt.<\/p>\n<p>When you do this as a government &#8230; I don&#8217;t think the IMF is going to pay in Mexico&#8217;s stead for debt to which they&#8217;ve never consented. And if you look at the IMF requirements in Greece or Ireland, I\u00a0<em>sincerely<\/em> hope\u00a0that isn&#8217;t the direction the US goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Trump hasn&#8217;t even been sworn in yet and I&#8217;ve got my first entry for this list:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-wall-mexico.html?_r=0 in which he says we&#8217;re going to float the debt to build this massive wall (hopefully finding the least environmentally damaging route, eminent domaining the fewest people, and so on). Then we&#8217;ll get Mexico to pay for it. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}