{"id":1970,"date":"2011-06-26T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T13:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2011-06-26T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T13:36:29","slug":"past-speaker-pelosi-takes-cake-then-claims-she-baked-it-and-gave-to-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Past Speaker Pelosi Takes Cake&#8230;Then Claims She Baked It And Gave To American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted this but this story just HAS to get out there.  It&#8217;s simply preposterous <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/nancy-pelosi\/2011\/01\/04\/speaker-pelosi-leaves-whopper\" target=\"_blank\">what past Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has claimed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At her final press conference as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, &#8220;Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The numbers tell a different story.<\/p>\n<p>When the Pelosi Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt stood at $8,670,596,242,973.04. The last day of the 111th Congress and Pelosi&#8217;s Speakership on December 22, 2010 the national debt was $13,858,529,371,601.09 &#8211; a roughly $5.2 trillion increase in just four years. Furthermore, the year over year federal deficit has roughly quadrupled during Pelosi&#8217;s four years as speaker, from $342 billion in fiscal year 2007 to an estimated $1.6 trillion at the end of fiscal year 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ya gotta love her moxie though.  She claims their priority is deficit reduction yet the deficit under her watch goes up $5.2Trillion.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE:  for those following my twitter I tweeted Billion and deleted to retweet Trillion.  Oops!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted this but this story just HAS to get out there. It&#8217;s simply preposterous what past Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has claimed. At her final press conference as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, &#8220;Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.&#8221; The numbers tell a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,39,51,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-by-taxes","category-moonbattery","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-politics-american","category-quotalicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}