{"id":133,"date":"2009-03-16T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-03-16T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:30:42","slug":"micropork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/133\/micropork\/","title":{"rendered":"Micropork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few months, the current Looter in Chief has been telling us that low taxes which let people keep and spend more of their own money is somehow &#8220;giving&#8221; money to the &#8220;rich,&#8221; and that only government can create jobs by spending trillions of dollars it doesn&#8217;t have but plans to steal from the &#8220;rich&#8221; later. So how are they spending the &#8220;stimulus&#8221; money which they claim is supposed to help &#8220;main street&#8221; instead of the eeevil, rich corporations? Well, it appears that a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/03\/15\/1821227\">few billion<\/a> will be going to help Microsoft build a bridge connecting two of their parking lots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.gtanet.com\/gtaforums\/images\/html\/emoticons\/facedesk.gif\" alt=\"facedesk\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or, in other words corporations making jobs = &#8220;trickle down&#8221; economics and &#8220;failed policy.&#8221; Raising taxes and creating a Federal Ponzi scheme where the money is filtered through the pockets of politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists to accomplish the exact same thing = &#8220;Change You can Believe in!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can someone explain to me the difference between Bernie Madoff and President Obama? I mean, aside from the fact that Madoff&#8217;s victims willingly gave him money but the taxpayers are coerced at gun point..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few months, the current Looter in Chief has been telling us that low taxes which let people keep and spend more of their own money is somehow &#8220;giving&#8221; money to the &#8220;rich,&#8221; and that only government can create jobs by spending trillions of dollars it doesn&#8217;t have but plans to steal from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}