{"id":3196,"date":"2011-02-07T23:55:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T03:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2011-02-08T00:47:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T04:47:41","slug":"rick-scotts-budget-released-in-eustis-belongs-in-fantasyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott&#8217;s budget released in Eustis, belongs in Fantasyland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/nakedpolitics\/2011\/02\/a-cheat-sheet-to-rick-scotts-tax-and-spending-7b-cuts.html\">summary of Rick Scott&#39;s proposed biennial budget<\/a> for the state of Florida is bleak: tremendous spending cuts and attacks on public employees to pay for tax cuts concentrated for those who can afford to pay taxes. The St. Pete Times\/Miami Herald state political bureau reporters are not impressed, calling today a <a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/nakedpolitics\/2011\/02\/budget-shows-4-rick-scott-flip-flops-in-1-day.html\">four flip-flop<\/a> day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I disagree with the reporters. I am <em>mightily<\/em> impressed: I didn&#39;t think Charlie Crist&#39;s fantasy budget proposals would be eclipsed nearly so quickly. I stand humbled and corrected. A tip of the hat to Governor Scott (R-Medicare Fraud): Sir, you have out-rose-colored-glassed both Charlie Crist and Johnnie Byrd.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summary of Rick Scott&#39;s proposed biennial budget for the state of Florida is bleak: tremendous spending cuts and attacks on public employees to pay for tax cuts concentrated for those who can afford to pay taxes. The St. Pete Times\/Miami Herald state political bureau reporters are not impressed, calling today a four flip-flop day.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-florida","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-Py","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}