{"id":20989,"date":"2011-07-08T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20989"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:01:21","slug":"chanting-points-memo-on-behalf-of-all-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20989","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: On Behalf Of All Conservatives…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…let me answer the standard-issue DFL chanting point that you read on virtually ever tweet, ad and TV ad the DFL puts out:\"\"<\/p>\n

“The Republicans want to (do horrible things) to protect millionaires”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s settle this.<\/p>\n

None of us gives a rat’s ass about millionaires. \u00a0Bupkes. \u00a0Zip. \u00a0Nada.<\/p>\n

It’s about reforming government.<\/p>\n

It’s about stopping the DFL’s spending crazy train.<\/p>\n

It’s about making all of those safety net entitlement programs for the elderly and children and unemployed and mentally ill sustainable for the long term<\/em>. as opposed to the current fiscal time bombs they are.<\/p>\n

It’s about making sure that public employees actually have <\/em>pensions to retire on in thirty years.<\/p>\n

It’s about having a state where we don’t have <\/em>a perennial budget crisis, because the state lives solidly within and below its means – and it’s just fine, because the state is so prosperous its’ “means” are pretty darn formidable.<\/p>\n

We oppose government sucking up any more of this state’s viability than it really <\/em>needs – and by “needs”, I don’t mean “wants”, “covets” or “craves”. \u00a0 That means taxes on millionaires and <\/em>the poor – including the DFL’s screechingly regressive gas and cigarette taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…let me answer the standard-issue DFL chanting point that you read on virtually ever tweet, ad and TV ad the DFL puts out: “The Republicans want to (do horrible things) to protect millionaires”. Let’s settle this. None of us gives a rat’s ass about millionaires. \u00a0Bupkes. \u00a0Zip. \u00a0Nada. It’s about reforming government. It’s about stopping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,2,127],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-20989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-minnesota-politics","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20989","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=20989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25341,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20989\/revisions\/25341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}