{"id":1680,"date":"2003-08-11T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2003-08-11T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T00:04:00","slug":"transgenerational-financial-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/08\/11\/20\/04\/transgenerational-financial-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgenerational Financial Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=16573\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After 20 years of leadership by two like-minded, neoliberal-inclined parties, that debt ? our debt ? is on track to reach $7384 by September 2004. In a 2003 survey on transgenerational accounting, economists working for the U.S. Treasury identify $43 trillion in unfunded government liabilities. At every turn, this expanding liability ? our liability ? was used to expand the wealth of the already-wealthy &#8230; From 1992 to 2000, the income of the top 400 taxpayers grew at 15 times the rate of the bottom 90 percent. By 2000, America&#8217;s deficit-subsidized few were pocketing an average annual income of $174 million ($87,000 per hour), nearly quadruple their $46.8 million average in 1992 &#8230; To keep their lawmaker lackeys in line, Wall Street money managers and stockbrokers now account for 71 of the nation&#8217;s top 400 political contributors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of leadership by two like-minded, neoliberal-inclined parties, that debt ? our debt ? is on track to reach $7384 by September 2004. In a 2003 survey on transgenerational accounting, economists working&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}