{"id":58840,"date":"2016-05-19T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58840"},"modified":"2016-10-17T21:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:25:36","slug":"cop-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58840","title":{"rendered":"Cop Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is buying topsoil at Kern Landscaping in Saint Paul. \u00a0 \u00a0Busily loading his car, he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE climbing out of an oil-belching Subaru wagon to make a deposit. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Merg! \u00a0If we elect Hillary, we&#8217;ll get Bill Clinton for co-president!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0So?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0That means the economy will\u00a0<em>boom<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Wait &#8211; didn&#8217;t NPR tell me the economy is\u00a0<em>already\u00a0<\/em>booming?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0It&#8217;ll boom even more!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0OK. \u00a0So we&#8217;ll get Bill Clinton. \u00a0Will we also get Newt Gingrich?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0No. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Hisssssssssssssss!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Because it was the Gingrich Congress&#8217;s enforcement of fiscal discipline on the Clinton Administration after the 1994 Republican Wave that kept the Feds out of the way of the economic boom. \u00a0By the way, speaking of boom &#8211; will there be any empires falling, paving the way for a massive transfer of resources from the military?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Huh?<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0The &#8220;Peace Dividend&#8221;. \u00a0When the USSR collapsed &#8211; thanks to Ronald Reagan &#8211; the US was able to move a\u00a0<em>lot\u00a0<\/em>of defense spending to civilian uses. \u00a0Which dumped a\u00a0<em>ton\u00a0<\/em>of money, skill and technology into the civilian market. \u00a0 Which led, after a brief recession, to the beginning of a boom that ran until 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; if Hillary plans to bring back a conservative Congress and has another &#8220;peace dividend&#8221; in her purse, we might have ourselves a deal.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0(<em>Stands, mutely flapping jaw<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Have a nice day, Avery.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is buying topsoil at Kern Landscaping in Saint Paul. \u00a0 \u00a0Busily loading his car, he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE climbing out of an oil-belching Subaru wagon to make a deposit. \u00a0 LIBRELLE: \u00a0Merg! \u00a0If we elect Hillary, we&#8217;ll get Bill Clinton for co-president! BERG: \u00a0So? LIBRELLE: \u00a0That means the economy will\u00a0boom! BERG: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,68,16],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-58840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58840","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=58840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58843,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58840\/revisions\/58843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}