{"id":17064,"date":"2011-01-06T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17064"},"modified":"2011-01-06T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:02:35","slug":"its-a-good-thing-dayton-signed-a-300m-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17064","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Good Thing Dayton Signed A $300M Entitlement&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;because Minnesota underspends on health care and social entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>Really! \u00a0That&#8217;s what the leftyblogs say!<\/p>\n<p>And when they say it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/blogs\/112933714.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUgOy9cP3DieyckcUsI?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUgOy9cP3DieyckcUsI\">er&#8230;ah&#8230;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just as a debate on Minnesota health care spending rushes in at the Capitol, the Census Bureau offered some numbers to prime the pump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;State government spending on public welfare was greater than 30 percent\u00a0of general expenditures in 11 states, led by Minnesota (37.5 percent),&#8221; the government numbers bureau said in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers come from the Census&#8217; report on State Government Finances. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/govs\/state\/\">Dig in to the numbers here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article, by Rachel Stassen Berger &#8211; mentions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Worth noting: Although the Capitol debate Wednesday will focus on DFL Gov. Mark Dayton, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty was in charge when the numbers rose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As was a DFL-strangled legislature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;because Minnesota underspends on health care and social entitlements. Really! \u00a0That&#8217;s what the leftyblogs say! And when they say it, er&#8230;ah&#8230;: Just as a debate on Minnesota health care spending rushes in at the Capitol, the Census Bureau offered some numbers to prime the pump. &#8220;State government spending on public welfare was greater than 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17065,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions\/17065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}