{"id":890,"date":"2008-11-05T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/?p=890"},"modified":"2008-11-06T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T12:12:28","slug":"happy-today-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/happy-today-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy today in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>weiter mit Tom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8222;Up this AM listening to the pundits. I know the problems are huge. The<br \/>\nfinancial problem is just starting for the US&#8230; Maybe Europe too. All of<br \/>\nthis war is &#8222;off the books.&#8220; While sitting on the finance committee of the<br \/>\nDenton County Transit Authority I have seen what this spending has done<br \/>\nto&#8230; Texas&#8217;s ability to build roads for example. Texas sent over 880<br \/>\nmillion dollars of highway building funds back to Washington in 2007 alone,<br \/>\nto fund Iraq and Bush&#8217;s tax cuts. That&#8217;s just Texas and just the<br \/>\ntransportation funds bucket of money. Just think of all the other buckets of<br \/>\nmoney, education, health, etc. Multiply that by 50 states. It is mind<br \/>\nboggling. Well, each journey begins with one step. Yesterday, hopefully we<br \/>\ntook that first step.<br \/>\nQuote anything I say that you think worthy, my friend.<br \/>\nHappy today in Texas.&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>weiter mit Tom: &#8222;Up this AM listening to the pundits. I know the problems are huge. The financial problem is just starting for the US&#8230; Maybe Europe too. All of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/happy-today-in-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eHappy today in Texas\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[5857,237,5858],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-texas","tag-news-from-texas","tag-obama","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}