{"id":341,"date":"2009-02-10T03:26:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T10:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-02-10T03:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T10:42:03","slug":"usa-was-3-hrs-away-from-economic-political-collapse-in-september-2008-if-they-had-not-done-that-their-estimation-was-that-by-two-oclock-that-afternoon-55-trillion-would-have-been-drawn-out-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"USA was 3 hrs away from Economic, Political Collapse in September 2008 :  Daily Kos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When economic turmoil is so severe, it really ought to be considered as a key factor in environmental policy decisions. For example, how can a economic\/political system teetering on collapse be relied upon to maintain nuclear power plants? Apparently last September the whole global economony almost went south &#8211; and we&#8217;re still not out of the woods either:<\/p>\n<p>From Daily Kos:<\/p>\n<p>According to Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D) (PA-11), in mid-September of 2008, the United States of America came just three hours away from the collapse of the entire economy. In a span of 2 hours, $550 billion was drawn out of money market accounts in an electronic run on the banks.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Kanjorski: &#8220;It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read the article and also see the revealing video testimony of Rep. Kanjorski: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/2\/9\/234340\/6189\/142\/695504\">Daily Kos: USA was 3 hrs away from Economic, Political Collapse in September 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When economic turmoil is so severe, it really ought to be considered as a key factor in environmental policy decisions. For example, how can a economic\/political system teetering on collapse be relied upon to maintain nuclear power plants? Apparently last September the whole global economony almost went south &#8211; and we&#8217;re still not out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}