{"id":32291,"date":"2012-12-07T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32291"},"modified":"2012-12-06T19:55:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T01:55:32","slug":"math-a-la-dfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32291","title":{"rendered":"Math <i>A La<\/i> DFL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pioneer Press repeats the DFL line on the budget \u2013 we\u2019re only short $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t think the numbers work. We&#8217;re short $1.1 billion for day-to-day operating expenses. We short-changed schools $2.4 billion last time but we\u2019re paying back half of that so we\u2019re still short $1.2 billion for that. PLUS we need something for inflation because even if government employees get no raises, the cost of everything from paper clips to blacktop keeps going up.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s more like $2.5 billion we\u2019re short. Tell the truth: we have our own fiscal cliff right here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Pioneer Press repeats the DFL line on the budget \u2013 we\u2019re only short $1.1 billion. I don\u2019t think the numbers work. We&#8217;re short $1.1 billion for day-to-day operating expenses. We short-changed schools $2.4 billion last time but we\u2019re paying back half of that so we\u2019re still short $1.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291","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=32291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32292,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291\/revisions\/32292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}