{"id":23,"date":"2004-08-06T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/pork\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T20:58:10","slug":"pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For dinner, yesterday, we had pork.  As we were eating, I glanced through the mail.  My state assemblyman, Joseph Morelle, had sent out an <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/member_files\/132\/20040722\/index.html\">update<\/a> bragging about his accomplishments in Albany.  It looked like he had pork as well.  Here is the money he &#8220;secured&#8221; for Rochester:<br \/>\n$5,000 for a playground<br \/>\n$60,000 to light a Little League field<br \/>\n$10,000 for a sports program<br \/>\n$50,000 to improve safety in the homes of elderly<br \/>\n$50,000 for a new museum exhibit<br \/>\n$75,000 for a film festival<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal responsibility in New York state is a joke.  We complain about the high taxes, but then we want to make sure we get our fair share of spending.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can understand my assemblyman&#8217;s position.  If he wrote a newsletter that said &#8220;I turned down all my contituents&#8217; silly requests for grants to help keep down taxes&#8221;, it probably wouldn&#8217;t go over so well.  Particularly since it wouldn&#8217;t be true.  Taxes would still be high since all the other representatives are &#8220;securing&#8221; money for their areas.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d almost be a Libertarian if their morals weren&#8217;t so&#8230; well, libertarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For dinner, yesterday, we had pork. As we were eating, I glanced through the mail. My state assemblyman, Joseph Morelle, had sent out an update bragging about his accomplishments in Albany. It looked like he had pork as well. Here is the money he &#8220;secured&#8221; for Rochester: $5,000 for a playground $60,000 to light a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}