{"id":247,"date":"2008-12-11T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-12-11T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:03:03","slug":"the-government-has-been-lying-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"The Government has been lying to you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gross domestic product is not what we have been told it is.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/market-ticker.org\/uploads\/usdebt.jpg\" alt=\"GDP\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl Denninger writes about a &#8216;Den of Liars&#8217; in his latest <a href=\"http:\/\/market-ticker.denninger.net\/\">market ticker <\/a>&#8220;&#8230;we haven&#8217;t had an expansion in GDP over the last eight years.  Congress and its organs of reporting economic &#8220;facts&#8221; have lied.  We have in fact actually seen about a 10% contraction in real GDP from 2000 levels; all of the so-called &#8220;expansion&#8221; of the Bush Administration has been a lie intended to prevent recognition and working through of the recession that should have happened in 2000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The depression is coming and if the lies are not brought out in to the open it will end up being much much worse that it needs to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross domestic product is not what we have been told it is. Karl Denninger writes about a &#8216;Den of Liars&#8217; in his latest market ticker &#8220;&#8230;we haven&#8217;t had an expansion in GDP over the last eight years. Congress and its organs of reporting economic &#8220;facts&#8221; have lied. We have in fact actually seen about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}