{"id":5257,"date":"2009-08-14T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2009-08-14T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T22:04:17","slug":"stimulus-simulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus Simulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was biking on a Three Rivers bike trail in and around my home in Hennepin County today and came upon some young workers building a little area of stairs onto the biking\/walking trail from a park.<\/p>\n<p>They had arrived in an official Hennepin County van, so I would have to assume that they were county workers.<\/p>\n<p>Posted proudly near their little project was a sign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Your Stimulus Dollars at Work&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Government workers, working on government land, on a government project. Dare I say an unnecessary one at that.<br \/>\nRiddle me this: Just exactly what stimulus was this project providing?<\/p>\n<p>How many sustainable private sector jobs, the only source of true economic growth, were created?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was biking on a Three Rivers bike trail in and around my home in Hennepin County today and came upon some young workers building a little area of stairs onto the biking\/walking trail from a park. They had arrived in an official Hennepin County van, so I would have to assume that they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-patrol","category-the-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}