{"id":74045,"date":"2020-05-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74045"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:43","slug":"the-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74045","title":{"rendered":"The Turning Point?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The media and the Walz administration &#8211; pardon, largely, the redundancy &#8211; is waving around a bunch of polls by a bunch of left-leaning pollsters showing overwhelming support for keeping the state&#8217;s economy shut down until&#8230;um, they&#8217;ll get back to you on that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that an awful lot of those supporting a vapor-tight lockdown until (insert yet another set of Walz Administration goals &#8211; I have a hard time keeping up with &#8217;em) have steady incomes that aren&#8217;t going anywhere.  State workers, employees of schools and universities, non-profiteers in sectors with revenues that aren&#8217;t going anywhere.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But all that might change soon.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleynewslive.com\/content\/news\/Pandemic-projected-to-take-4B-bite-out-of-Minnesota-budget-570233131.html?fbclid=IwAR0AEYPs6pzbUl8bmxtbI0xXqkMTMyiDN3i14Pu2hczQ5VH9DNz_LQqR40w\">From yesterday&#8217;s Governor&#8217;s presser<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Gov. Tim Walz says he\u2019s not ready to rule anything out _ including layoffs and furloughs of state employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna suspect that starts some DFLers thinking critically about risk aversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media and the Walz administration &#8211; pardon, largely, the redundancy &#8211; is waving around a bunch of polls by a bunch of left-leaning pollsters showing overwhelming support for keeping the state&#8217;s economy shut down until&#8230;um, they&#8217;ll get back to you on that. I&#8217;ve noticed that an awful lot of those supporting a vapor-tight lockdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,129],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-unions","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74045","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=74045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74046,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74045\/revisions\/74046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}