{"id":3637,"date":"2017-07-16T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2017-07-16T02:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T17:31:49","slug":"fiscal-insanity-republican-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/fiscal-insanity-republican-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiscal Insanity &#8211; Republican Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are fiscal\u00a0matters shaping up under the new renaissance Republican leadership? More like fecal matters.<\/p>\n<p>The following chart is busy and some explanation is in order.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3638\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-1024x636.jpg\" alt=\"Spending\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-242x150.jpg 242w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Pane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tax receipts. This is private property God Blesses we the people through our hard work, ingenuity, risk taking, and industriousness that we empower\u00a0an extra Constitutional central government to confiscate from us for our own good thanks to the enlightened votes of 51% of our nation. The confiscations peak in April and October and thus is volatile data in the bar graph so I&#8217;ve taken what little individual liberty I&#8217;ve left to smooth the data with a 12-month simple moving average in the shaded green<\/p>\n<p><strong>Center Pane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spending by the extra Constitutional central government some of which is mandated and allowed by our Constitution such as national defense and occasional attempts at border security. Most of it is transfer payments from we the people to other we the people leveraging the guilt of those from whom property is confiscated against the dependency of the recipients to ensure 85%+ success of incumbents during Congressional elections. Again this is all for our own good or something like that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom Pane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deficit derived by subtracting the center pane (spending) from top pane (confiscation). Yes this is a consistent deficit with occasional accounting lapses\u00a0yielding a temporary surplus. The deficit detailed by the 12-month simple moving average (shaded gray area) is widening under benighted Republican leadership. Please pardon me while I feign surprise.<\/p>\n<p>How is this sustainable? Not satisfied to have the extra Constitutional central government confiscate our and our neighbor&#8217;s Blessings in real time we are simultaneously confiscating our posterity&#8217;s Blessings in the form of $19,400,000,000,000 and ever growing sovereign Dollar denominated debt.<\/p>\n<p>This is not my definition of Making America Great Again. Your mileage my vary. This is at best Making America Worse at the same or possibly slower pace than the alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your guns oiled and the edges of your Bible worn. We&#8217;ve learned exactly nothing, but at least have some awesome sick burns on Twitter!<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3637\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3637\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are fiscal\u00a0matters shaping up under the new renaissance Republican leadership? More like fecal matters.<\/p>\n<p>The following chart is busy and some explanation is in order.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3638\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-1024x636.jpg\" alt=\"Spending\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending-242x150.jpg 242w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Spending.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Pane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tax receipts. This is private property God Blesses we the people through our hard work, ingenuity, risk taking, and industriousness that we empower\u00a0an extra Constitutional central government to confiscate from us for our own good thanks to the enlightened votes of 51% of our nation. The confiscations peak in April and October and thus is volatile data in the bar graph so I&#8217;ve taken what little individual liberty I&#8217;ve left to smooth &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/fiscal-insanity-republican-leadership\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,152],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-unlimited-government","tag-fiscal-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}