{"id":73655,"date":"2020-03-24T06:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73655"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:28:34","slug":"their-progressive-majesties-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73655","title":{"rendered":"Their Progressive Majesties Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Minnesota&#8217;s Democrat congressional delegation sent a letter to Vice President Pence telling him it was unacceptable that doctors in our state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/democrats-press-pence-on-virus-test-shortage\/ar-BB11eWTB?ocid=spartandhp\">didn&#8217;t have enough complete Corona virus test kits<\/a>.  Apparently, the test kits ship without an essential chemical and world-wide demand has been so high, there&#8217;s a shortage of the chemical. <br> The law of supply and demand is unacceptable!<br> Yeah?  So roll up your sleeves and get to work, ladies.  Start producing the chemical.  Do something useful.<\/p><p>Or Shut The Hell Up and let the adults get back to work, dealing with the crisis as best they can with the tools at hand.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if episodes like this mean that Smith, Klobuchar, Craig, Phillips, McCollum, Omar and Peterson genuinely think the economy runs by command?  (Don&#8217;t bet against that with Smith, McCollum and Omar).  Or is it just election-year posturing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s Democrat congressional delegation sent a letter to Vice President Pence telling him it was unacceptable that doctors in our state didn&#8217;t have enough complete Corona virus test kits. Apparently, the test kits ship without an essential chemical and world-wide demand has been so high, there&#8217;s a shortage of the chemical. The law of supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-73655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73655","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=73655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73656,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73655\/revisions\/73656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}