{"id":50279,"date":"2015-01-07T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50279"},"modified":"2015-01-07T07:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T13:35:33","slug":"50279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50279","title":{"rendered":"Over-Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the cashier at Cub took my money then announced she had a surplus, I\u2019d say she overcharged me. That\u2019s a bad thing.<br \/>\nIf the State takes my money then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtwincities.com\/story\/27548468\/how-minnesota-has-a-1-billion-budget-surplus\">announces it has a surplus<\/a>, I\u2019m supposed to be thrilled?<\/p>\n<p>In the private sector, a budget starts with a realistic expectation of income, then works in spending that can be afforded.<br \/>\nIn government, a budget starts with special interest spending demands on paid-for politicians, who set the income to cover the payoffs.<br \/>\nThe equivalent process in the private sector would be monopolistic price fixing by a crime syndicate.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everything you really need to know about government budgeting, you learn from Henry Hill&#8217;s soliloquy about Jimmy Conolly from &#8220;Goodfellas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I mean; the one that goes &#8220;business is been bad? F*** you, give me the money&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If the cashier at Cub took my money then announced she had a surplus, I\u2019d say she overcharged me. That\u2019s a bad thing. If the State takes my money then announces it has a surplus, I\u2019m supposed to be thrilled? In the private sector, a budget starts with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50279","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=50279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50293,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50279\/revisions\/50293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}