{"id":1032,"date":"2010-08-04T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2010-08-05T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T21:15:55","slug":"whered-the-money-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/04\/whered-the-money-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;d the Money Go?&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Senators<\/em> <strong>McClain<\/strong> (<em>Arizona<\/em>) and <strong>Coburn<\/strong> (<em>Oklahoma<\/em>) claim that <strong>Two (2) Billion dollars<\/strong> of the <em>stimulus money<\/em> has, or will be spent, for over <strong>One Hundred (100)<\/strong> <em>useless and unnecessary<\/em> projects&#8230;..  The <strong>administration<\/strong> rebutted by stating that some of these projects were already on the books, and, anyway, the amount is only <em>a small faction of 1%<\/em> of the <em>total stimulus package<\/em>&#8230;..  <strong>WELL<\/strong>, if that&#8217;s the way they look at it, and it&#8217;s such a <strong>SMALL AMOUNT<\/strong>, why don&#8217;t they give <strong>ME<\/strong> the <strong>Two (2) Billion<\/strong>&#8230;..  I think I, my family, friends, relatives, and even neighbors and strangers I meet on the street could live the <strong>good life<\/strong> right on out to the end, <em>which probably won&#8217;t be too long the way things are going<\/em>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of the projects:  <strong>$70,000<\/strong> to study <em>the effect of cocaine on Monkeys<\/em> (Yeah, I doubt the Monkeys will see much of the coke)&#8230;..  <strong>$500,000<\/strong> to replace the windows in the <strong>Mount St. Helens Visitor Center<\/strong>&#8230;..  The only problem is that the <strong>Center<\/strong> has been closed for some time and is scheduled to remain closed for an indefinite amount of time&#8230;..  Anyone know when they closed it?&#8230;.  I think it was <strong>2003<\/strong> the last time I visited the Volcano and it was open then&#8230;.  Got lots of cool pictures from in and around the <strong>Center<\/strong>&#8230;..  If they&#8217;re not going to re-open it, why replace the windows?&#8230;..  <strong><em>Augh!!!<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember, your <strong>Government<\/strong> is working for you, just ask <strong>Big Business<\/strong>, and, <em>Why don&#8217;t you grab up some of that beautiful, well oiled Beach front property for sell on the<\/em> <strong>Gulf Coast<\/strong>&#8230;..     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators McClain (Arizona) and Coburn (Oklahoma) claim that Two (2) Billion dollars of the stimulus money has, or will be spent, for over One Hundred (100) useless and unnecessary projects&#8230;.. The administration rebutted by stating that some of these projects were already on the books, and, anyway, the amount is only a small faction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}