{"id":17499,"date":"2011-01-19T08:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17499"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:59:19","slug":"the-rubber-hits-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17499","title":{"rendered":"The Rubber Hits The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota GOP yesterday put the Minnesota budget &#8211; <em>for the current bienniium \u00a0&#8211; <\/em>up on the hoist and start working:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota House and Senate Republicans\u00a0today introduced an early action budget bill that takes immediate steps\u00a0to reduce the budget deficit by $1 billion.  The bill reduces spending\u00a0for state agencies by $200 million in the current budget while making\u00a0other one-time spending cuts permanent, reducing the long-term deficit\u00a0by another $840 million.  The early budget bill represents the first\u00a0phase of the Minnesota Legislature\u2019s budget balancing plan for the\u00a0next two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bulk of the changes involve making Governor Pawlenty&#8217;s unallotments permanent, and starting to tackle the issue of the absurd &#8220;autopilot&#8221; increases that have the less-curious in the media and most of the leftysphere chattering about &#8220;$6.2 billion deficits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe need to prevent automatic spending increases that are included in\u00a0the state government budget, and passing this budget bill will keep some\u00a0of state government\u2019s expenditures at current levels,\u201d said House\u00a0Ways and Means Committee Chair Mary Liz Holberg, R-Lakeville.  \u201cFor\u00a0the most part, the budget bill includes spending levels that were\u00a0approved by the DFL-controlled Legislature and Republicans at the end of\u00a0the 2010 legislative session,\u201d said Holberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More on this budget &#8211; and the response from the DFL and media (pardon the redundncy) &#8211; tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota GOP yesterday put the Minnesota budget &#8211; for the current bienniium \u00a0&#8211; up on the hoist and start working: Minnesota House and Senate Republicans\u00a0today introduced an early action budget bill that takes immediate steps\u00a0to reduce the budget deficit by $1 billion. The bill reduces spending\u00a0for state agencies by $200 million in the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2,123],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-17499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499","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=17499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22528,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions\/22528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}