{"id":80241,"date":"2021-12-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80241"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:24:16","slug":"imagine-if-you-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80241","title":{"rendered":"Imagine If You Will&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>&#8230;that your credit card company overbilled your automatic payments, and you opened your statement to find that your credit card balance was -$1,000.   You had literally paid them a thousand more than you needed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that extra thousand dollars something the credit card company can &#8211; or should &#8211; then put into more coffee for the break room?  Or executive bonuses?  Or a new monitor for their accounting department?   Or tack it onto someone&#8217;s salary, forcing them to keep overbilling you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems absurd, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s what the DFL is doing with the news that the budget has a &#8220;surplus&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1468286365448253442\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They are Capital One, and they are looking at that overpayment and drooling like a wolf tracking a pack of sheep.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/CarrieLucking\/status\/1468272606788964364\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Better idea, Ms. Lucking:  have the waves of overpaid, largely deadwood administrators that the schools have been hiring with previous waves of &#8220;surpluses&#8221; that got turned into permanent education spending, to (judging by the results) <em>negative <\/em>results, look those students in the eye and tell them what f****** good they&#8217;ve done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll wait <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I digress.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surplus is a mirage, of course; it includes federal &#8220;Covid Relief&#8221; money that hasn&#8217;t been spent (yet), and other temporal fruit of a distorted economy.  It isn&#8217;t permanent&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;any more than that overbilling from Capital One. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that your credit card company overbilled your automatic payments, and you opened your statement to find that your credit card balance was -$1,000. You had literally paid them a thousand more than you needed to. Is that extra thousand dollars something the credit card company can &#8211; or should &#8211; then put into more coffee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80241","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=80241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80243,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80241\/revisions\/80243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}