{"id":388174,"date":"2010-03-04T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-what-the-us-government-austerity-budget-could-look-like-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:08:00","slug":"the-nightmare-scenario-how-the-u-s-government-would-look-under-an-austerity-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388174","title":{"rendered":"The Nightmare Scenario: How The U.S. Government Would Look Under An Austerity Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-what-the-us-government-austerity-budget-could-look-like-2010-2#the-unemployed-get-burned-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8ebeaa7f8b9a2f26a20100-260-195\/munch-scream.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Munch Scream\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>As lending to sovereigns dreis up, the world is talking about austerity budgets.<\/p>\n<p>For now though, despite sky-high debts, the US can borrow at ease<\/p>\n<p>But what would the United States look like under one?<\/p>\n<p>The Irish have instituted a wide ranging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budget.gov.ie\/Budgets\/2010\/2010.aspx\">austerity budget<\/a> that has cut everywhere in order to bring the country&#8217;s debt as a percentage of GDP back into line with Euro requirements.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s imagine for a moment&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-what-the-us-government-austerity-budget-could-look-like-2010-2#the-unemployed-get-burned-1\">Who would get killed in a US austerity budget &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-what-the-us-government-austerity-budget-could-look-like-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/say-goodbye-to-your-carried-interest-loophole-hedgies-2010-2\">Hey Hedge Funds, Say Goodbye To Your Carried Interest Loophole<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-masters-of-congressional-pork-2010-2\">Meet The Porkers: 20 Politicians That Know How To Bring It Home For Their Districts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-biggest-moochers-10-states-that-are-getting-the-most-tax-dollars-2010-2\">The Biggest Moochers: 10 States Making A Fortune From Obama&#8217;s Budget<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/X6pxUA-zSMw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As lending to sovereigns dreis up, the world is talking about austerity budgets. For now though, despite sky-high debts, the US can borrow at ease But what would the United States look like under one? The Irish have instituted a wide ranging austerity budget that has cut everywhere in order to bring the country&#8217;s debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}