{"id":4950,"date":"2009-06-18T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2009-06-18T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T17:11:09","slug":"the-sky-is-going-to-fall-if-i-have-to-chip-it-off-with-this-mop-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4950","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Is Going To Fall If I Have To Chip It Off With This Mop Handle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As prediced: Govenor Pawlenty is going to unallot the budget to balance it &#8211; and the Dems are going to cry that police and fire protection will be chopped (even though they&#8217;re a small fraction of most city&#8217;s budgets).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speed Gibson is <a href=\"http:\/\/speedgibson.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1245240543.shtml\">onto the scam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even on the normally more reliable KSTP-TV, yes the sky will be falling from police cutbacks, closed libraries, neglected parks, and of course, unavoidable property tax increases. All from the loss of a very small cuts in Local Government Aid (LGA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t need any lecture from Tim Pawlenty on how to run a budget,&#8221; says Minneapolis Mayor R. T. Rybak. <a href=\"http:\/\/speedgibson.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1243120773.shtml\">Yes, you do, Your Honor.<\/a> Police protection, your number one obligation, is less than 10 percent of your budget. The Fire Department costs less than half of that. To even hint at cutbacks in these areas solely on the basis of LGA not being what you want is nothing short of a lie. But of course, nobody in the newsrooms will likely call you or any other mayor on this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to take a look at the cuts Saint Paul&#8217;s budget can absorb without hurting police and fire protection.\u00a0 I&#8217;m suspecting it&#8217;s &#8220;lots&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As prediced: Govenor Pawlenty is going to unallot the budget to balance it &#8211; and the Dems are going to cry that police and fire protection will be chopped (even though they&#8217;re a small fraction of most city&#8217;s budgets).\u00a0 Speed Gibson is onto the scam: Even on the normally more reliable KSTP-TV, yes the sky [&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-4950","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\/4950","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=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}