{"id":20845,"date":"2011-06-30T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20845"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:02:06","slug":"to-make-things-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20845","title":{"rendered":"To Make Things Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: State Employees (who find themselves on-camera with one of the local TV stations that are devoting slavering coverage to the (DFL side of the) shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg, schnook taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>Re: Priorities<\/p>\n<p>Dear state employees:<\/p>\n<p>Sorry about the whole shutdown situation. You <em>do <\/em>realize that Governor Dayton could end this whole thing at any moment by accepting the balanced GOP budget that&#8217;s been on the table for almost two months.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d like to talk with those of you that&#8217;ve been on camera with Channels 4, 5, 9 and 11 on every single newscast for the past couple of weeks, asking how you plan on getting by without a state paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prioritize!&#8221;, some of you say. &#8220;Gotta pay the rent and the mortgage&#8221;, you intone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s tough out there&#8221;, one of you actually said.<\/p>\n<p>Just \u00a0a quick question, asked with all due respect; what <em>do <\/em> you think all of us in the private sector have been doing?<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: State Employees (who find themselves on-camera with one of the local TV stations that are devoting slavering coverage to the (DFL side of the) shutdown. From: Mitch Berg, schnook taxpayer. Re: Priorities Dear state employees: Sorry about the whole shutdown situation. You do realize that Governor Dayton could end this whole thing at any [&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],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-20845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845","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=20845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25351,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845\/revisions\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}