{"id":3520,"date":"2016-02-15T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:25:28","slug":"dealing-with-the-19-trillion-national-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/02\/15\/dealing-with-the-19-trillion-national-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with the $19 Trillion National Debt Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Act fast. Farmingdale\u00a0State College is almost in 10th place nationally.\u00a0<strong>In order to maintain or advance in ranks, we need more people to sign the pledge:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/l.ohsay.com\/c\/184\/farmingdale\" target=\"_blank\">Oh Say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign your name and follow the prompts. ONLY millennials votes count. The polls close on the 28th of February.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, Five FSC students are competing in a nation-wide campaign &#8211; \u201cIt\u2019s Up to Us\u201d &#8211; to raise awareness on college campuses about the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>The facts are downright scary:\u00a0 The national debt is now over $19 trillion! That\u2019s $58, 866 for each American &#8211; including you, your children and your children&#8217;s children.\u00a0 Our five competitors believe it will mainly fall on the shoulders of the college-age generation to fix this fiscal mess.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have to do with reducing debt by cutting government spending, raising taxes, and job creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act fast. Farmingdale\u00a0State College is almost in 10th place nationally.\u00a0In order to maintain or advance in ranks, we need more people to sign the pledge:\u00a0Oh Say. Sign your name and follow the prompts. ONLY millennials votes count. The polls close on the 28th of February. As you may know, Five FSC students are competing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}