{"id":1082,"date":"2014-06-28T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2014-06-28T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T17:44:01","slug":"balance-californias-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/balance-californias-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Balance California&#8217;s Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/balance-californias-budget\/\" data-text=\"How to Balance California&#038;%238217;s Budget\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>I have an idea to balance California&#8217;s budget. \u00a0What&#8217;s that you say? \u00a0California already has a balanced budget? \u00a0I see&#8230;I see. \u00a0Look at that last line there&#8230;on the bottom. \u00a0In small print. \u00a0Why would there be $20,000.000.00 appropriated for &#8220;Smoke and Mirrors&#8221;? \u00a0Hmmm? \u00a0You see my point.<\/p>\n<p>I have a real world solution. \u00a0We simply replace the entire legislature with a broken clock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1084\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/balance-californias-budget\/brokenclock1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1084\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1084\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1084\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/brokenclock1-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"This one should do the trick\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/brokenclock1-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/brokenclock1-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/brokenclock1.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This one should do the trick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fact that a broken clock is right twice a day, which is two times a day more than the legislature is. \u00a0Case In Point: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2014\/06\/27\/feel-good-plastic-bag-bans-cost-you\" target=\"_blank\">Plastic Bag Bans Will Cost You<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that my idea is stupid is no reason not to do it. \u00a0That never stops the Legislature from pushing their silliness on all of us. \u00a0Besides&#8230;it&#8217;s for the children. \u00a0And it&#8217;s not stupid if it&#8217;s for the children.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You&#8217;re Welcome!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I have an idea to balance California&#8217;s budget. \u00a0What&#8217;s that you say? \u00a0California already has a balanced budget? \u00a0I see&#8230;I see. \u00a0Look at that last line there&#8230;on the bottom. \u00a0In small print. \u00a0Why would there be $20,000.000.00 appropriated for &#8220;Smoke and Mirrors&#8221;? \u00a0Hmmm? \u00a0You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}