{"id":350,"date":"2011-10-07T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2011-10-07T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:42:03","slug":"bring-the-whole-thing-crashing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/10\/bring-the-whole-thing-crashing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring the Whole Thing Crashing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece is to default. Italy, European and now British banks have had the credit ratings downgraded. Even the US is in two minds about whether to pay it&#8217;s debts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick of it all. Let&#8217;s all go to out banks, take the money out and burn it, starting with Lloyds and RBS, downgraded this morning. See if they can&#8217;t be pushed under.<\/p>\n<p>The system is not worth saving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece is to default. Italy, European and now British banks have had the credit ratings downgraded. Even the US is in two minds about whether to pay it&#8217;s debts. I&#8217;m sick of it all. Let&#8217;s all go to out banks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/10\/bring-the-whole-thing-crashing-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-5E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1255,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/02\/britain-joins-the-ranks-of-the-third-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":350,"position":0},"title":"Britain Joins The Ranks of The Third World","author":"taxicle","date":"February 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"ie those countries without a triple A credit rating. 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