{"id":58648,"date":"2016-05-05T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58648"},"modified":"2016-05-05T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:29:20","slug":"your-smile-is-thin-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58648","title":{"rendered":"Your Smile Is Thin Disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Liberals claim the economy has been turned around for years, big recovery going on, stock market booming, unemployment at all-time lows.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe the government\u2019s statistics; I think bureaucrats manipulate the numbers to make the administration look good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">How about a more concrete number: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpaul.gov\/departments\/safety-inspections\/vacant-buildings\/vacant-building-list\"><span class=\"s2\">vacant buildings in St. Paul<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 856. \u00a0 Economy is in a huge rebound thanks to the libs who have fixed all Bush&#8217;s errors but 856 vacant properties remain? \u00a0That\u2019s nearly as high as during the bad years.\u00a0 People generally don\u2019t just walk away from their homes, their businesses, their investments, not without a damned good reason and in recent years that reason has tended to be \u201ccan\u2019t afford to make the payments.\u201d\u00a0 That is not a sign of prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">When the city is littered with vacant buildings, businesses are moving out, restaurants are folding up, but the government statistics say everything is rosy, who are you going to believe: them or your lying eyes?<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">There&#8217;s a place for &#8220;fake it &#8217;til you make it&#8221;; the old Hungarian saying &#8220;the best way to become wealthy is to appear as if you already are&#8221; is one of the guiding principles of my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But not for &#8220;journalism&#8221;, thankewverymuch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals claim the economy has been turned around for years, big recovery going on, stock market booming, unemployment at all-time lows.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe the government\u2019s statistics; I think bureaucrats manipulate the numbers to make the administration look good.\u00a0 \u00a0How about a more concrete number: vacant buildings in St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-the-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58648","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=58648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58686,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58648\/revisions\/58686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}