{"id":5451,"date":"2009-09-22T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T11:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2009-09-22T06:49:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T11:49:32","slug":"waste-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5451","title":{"rendered":"Waste Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An observation that eludes many people, especially in these hopey-changey times when the less-&#8220;gifted&#8221; are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4051\">seeking a savior <\/a>from Washington and Michael Moore stalks the land; government is a machine that is designed to waste; waste money, waste resources, waste lives, waste initiative &#8211; waste.<br \/>\nR. Steven Rogers &#8211; a Minneapolis guy\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/rstevenrogers.livejournal.com\/2541.html\">observes Minneapolis govenment doing what all govenment does best<\/a>: on the one hand, demanding more&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year, they sold us the $60 Million per year referendum to increase funding for the Minneapolis Public Schools, assuring us that it would help do things like buy needed books, supplies, and manage class sizes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and on the other?\u00a0 Profligate waste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then they closed 4 more schools. That makes for 10 since April of 2007. And at the Folwell School, they are throwing away an entire school, one dumpster at a time. Perfectly good books, tables, sewing machines, sporting equipment, you name it. All of this could be donated to charities, other schools, youth groups; the list of people in need is quite long, especially these days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey &#8211; it was all paid for!<\/p>\n<p>By us.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole infuriating thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An observation that eludes many people, especially in these hopey-changey times when the less-&#8220;gifted&#8221; are seeking a savior from Washington and Michael Moore stalks the land; government is a machine that is designed to waste; waste money, waste resources, waste lives, waste initiative &#8211; waste. R. Steven Rogers &#8211; a Minneapolis guy\u00a0 &#8211; observes Minneapolis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","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=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}