The Blog has been favoured with another communication from Mrs Badger. Welcome back ma’am. She writes:<\/p>\n
“Dear Editor,<\/p>\n
I got very excited watching the Victoria Wood video which you so thoughtfully provided, and naturally my thoughts turned to disappointing or non-performance and thence to the problems facing the US economy and this Fiscal Cliff thing.. It is so long since\u00a0I worked in the City that I haven’t the faintest notion of what it’s all about. Could you enlighten us please?<\/p>\n
Certainly my dear. Imagine\u00a0a household budget: To put this into perspective for the US economy, simply add 8 noughts<\/strong> to each of the above numbers, \u00a0and substitute “USA” for “household”.<\/p>\n Easy. Now can anyone come up with a solution? The UK and European situations are not so different.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Blog has been favoured with another communication from Mrs Badger. Welcome back ma’am. She writes: “Dear Editor, I got very excited watching the Victoria Wood video which you so thoughtfully provided, and naturally my thoughts turned to disappointing or non-performance and thence to the problems facing the US economy and this Fiscal Cliff thing.. … Continue reading “Mrs Badger writes . . . . “What fiscal cliff?””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[794],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-C5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnnual family income<\/strong>: \u00a321,700
\nMoney the family spent<\/strong>: \u00a338,200
\nNew debt on the credit card<\/strong>:\u00a316,500
\nOutstanding balance on the credit card<\/strong>: \u00a3142,710
\nTotal budget cuts so far<\/strong>: \u00a3385<\/p>\n