{"id":64812,"date":"2017-10-20T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64812"},"modified":"2017-10-14T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T01:50:27","slug":"the-swanson-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64812","title":{"rendered":"The Swanson Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The State of Minnesota is suing President Trump for ending payments that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2017\/10\/13\/trump-administration-stops-health-insurance-payments-lori-swanson-minnesota-suing-restart\/\">federal judge has already ruled must be ended<\/a>.\u00a0 Attorney General Lori Swanson\u2019s argument: President Obama started giving us illegal payments and President Trump continued the illegal payments while Congress worked on the problem.\u00a0 We budgeted based on receiving illegal payments.\u00a0 To suddenly end the illegal payments would inconvenience us by making us live within our own means, so therefore we\u2019re entitled to continue receiving illegal payments, forever.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s illegal to follow the law.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair to the Attorney General, it&#8217;s how the DFL has handled budgeting for the past six decades or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The State of Minnesota is suing President Trump for ending payments that a federal judge has already ruled must be ended.\u00a0 Attorney General Lori Swanson\u2019s argument: President Obama started giving us illegal payments and President Trump continued the illegal payments while Congress worked on the problem.\u00a0 We budgeted based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64812","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=64812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64817,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64812\/revisions\/64817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}