{"id":520394,"date":"2010-04-08T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/state-state-state-union-41974\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:52:09","slug":"the-state-of-the-state-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520394","title":{"rendered":"The State Of The State = The State Of The Union."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.08.10 01:32 AM posted by Skip MacLure<\/p>\n<p>California is looking just like its business model back in  Washington\u0085 which is to say not well. We are unfortunately used to  seeing governments big and small underestimate just about everything. We  probably should scream like crazy about every item\u0085 but we can\u0092t, not  in the real day to day world. That\u0092s why we <i>hire<\/i> politicians to  represent us, who are supposed to look out for our interests and do the  will of their voters.<\/p>\n<p> It isn\u0092t working that way, certainly here in California with our  State Assembly, strongly left leaning and overrun by myriad special  interests and environmental activism. Our politics are almost comical in  ineptitude. Fresh from an environmental disaster that came very close  to destroying the State\u0092s Central San Joaquin Valley, our State  government stood largely silent, as did the Governor, when the Feds shut  off the water to the farmers citing damage to a 2? junk fish.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/skipmaclure.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/california-budget.png\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/skipmaclure.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/california-budget.png?w=450&amp;h=311\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> The Assembly, ignoring the record unemployment figures plaguing the  State, actually put forth a bill for a single payer health care for  California. The bill was estimated to cost a total of as much as thirty  billion dollars. This bill went bye-bye. But what was in the heads of  the politicians who seriously put this bill forward at a time when most  Californians are struggling to get along and many aren\u0092t\u0085 getting along  that is? It\u0092s <i>their<\/i> responsibility\u0085 all of it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/state_state_state_union\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/state_state_state_union\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/s&#8230;te_state_union<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.08.10 01:32 AM posted by Skip MacLure California is looking just like its business model back in Washington\u0085 which is to say not well. We are unfortunately used to seeing governments big and small underestimate just about everything. We probably should scream like crazy about every item\u0085 but we can\u0092t, not in the real day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}