{"id":1093,"date":"2004-02-09T17:04:45","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/figures-dont-lie-but-liars-do\/"},"modified":"2004-02-09T17:04:45","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T00:04:45","slug":"figures-dont-lie-but-liars-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/figures-dont-lie-but-liars-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures Don&#8217;t Lie, but Liars Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/imagefiles\/image002.gif\" alt=\"graph of spending\"\/><a title=\"FactCheck.org Defending Spending? Bush's Blooper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article.aspx?docid=139\">FactCheck.org Defending Spending? Bush&#8217;s Blooper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Bush slipped up in his hour-long interview with NBC&#8217;s Tim Russert over the weekend, claiming that the growth of discretionary federal spending has slowed markedly since he took office. <b>But in fact, annual growth has been in double digits for the past three years [<u>11.8%<\/u> average annual growth rate], far higher than in any year of the Clinton administration [<u>2.4%<\/u> for 8 years].<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FactCheck.org Defending Spending? Bush&#8217;s Blooper President Bush slipped up in his hour-long interview with NBC&#8217;s Tim Russert over the weekend, claiming that the growth of discretionary federal spending has slowed markedly since he took office. But in fact, annual growth has been in double digits for the past three years [11.8% average annual growth rate], &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/figures-dont-lie-but-liars-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Figures Don&#8217;t Lie, but Liars Do<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}