{"id":42720,"date":"2014-04-03T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42720"},"modified":"2014-03-30T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:22:25","slug":"lies-damned-lies-and-government-damned-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42720","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Damned Lies, And Government Damned Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Government statistics\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/374303\/untruthful-and-untrustworthy-government-victor-davis-hanson#%21\" target=\"_blank\">are unreliable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No lie, Bwana.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of reliable data, nobody can make sensible plans for business expansion, for retirement.\u00a0 Our own government is killing our economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The aggression of our government towards its own citizens in defense of politicians&#8217; idiotic pet programs dwarfs the threat of Russian aggression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Government aggression toward the citizens &#8211; and its parent, government believing it&#8217;s here to govern you, rather than the other way around &#8211; are going to be make-or-break problems for this society.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say I&#8217;m not feeling optimistic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Government statistics\u00a0are unreliable. No lie, Bwana. In the absence of reliable data, nobody can make sensible plans for business expansion, for retirement.\u00a0 Our own government is killing our economic recovery. The aggression of our government towards its own citizens in defense of politicians&#8217; idiotic pet programs dwarfs the threat [&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-42720","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\/42720","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=42720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42723,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions\/42723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}