{"id":225,"date":"2010-03-16T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:51:00","slug":"uh-oh-a-government-agency-wants-the-government-to-give-them-actual-money-instead-of-ious-the-government-cant-be-too-pleased-about-this-at-chicks-on-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/uh-oh-a-government-agency-wants-the-government-to-give-them-actual-money-instead-of-ious-the-government-cant-be-too-pleased-about-this-at-chicks-on-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"SSA tired of the IOUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And in today\u2019s news-that-I-can\u2019t-believe-doesn\u2019t-shake-Obama-out-of-his-healthcare-reform-passing-stupor, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100314\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_social_security_ious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security Administration wants to cash in<\/a> on its federal IOU\u2019s from the US Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the problem:  the government doesn\u2019t actually HAVE the money to give the SSA.  They\u2019ve spent it all.  So you know what they have to do?  BORROW FROM OVERSEAS, riiiiiight when we\u2019re risking <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100314-704084.html?mod=wsjcrmain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing our triple A credit rating<\/a> as it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the whole thing. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/chicksontheright.com\/2010\/03\/16\/uh-oh-a-government-agency-wants-the-government-to-give-them-actual-money-instead-of-ious-the-government-cant-be-too-pleased-about-this\/\">Chicks On The Right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in today\u2019s news-that-I-can\u2019t-believe-doesn\u2019t-shake-Obama-out-of-his-healthcare-reform-passing-stupor, the Social Security Administration wants to cash in on its federal IOU\u2019s from the US Treasury. Here\u2019s the problem: the government doesn\u2019t actually HAVE the money &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obamacare","category-broke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}