{"id":20784,"date":"2013-10-08T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=20784"},"modified":"2013-10-08T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T14:17:01","slug":"a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/10\/08\/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"“A Federal Budget Crisis Months In The Planning”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is worth a read<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a NY Times article.<\/p>\n

Suggests that the government shutdown was orchestrated by forces inside and outside the government. Koch Brothers, so-called “grassroots” organizations, and so forth.<\/p>\n

It’s also worth spreading around.<\/p>\n

Because these people don’t care about you.<\/p>\n

They don’t care about the country.<\/p>\n

They care about their bottom line. This is a faux-populist movement controlled by corporate interests who are on par with the mine barons — they are comfortable exploiting you, denying you health care, and kicking this country in the gut until it coughs up the results they want.<\/p>\n

I don’t know that any of this is actionable in a legal way — I mean, I’m a little tickled at the thought that this is treasonous behavior and punishable as such, though I suspect I’m being woefully naive on that front. I do know that we all can take action.<\/p>\n

For one thing, we can boycott Koch Brothers<\/strong><\/span><\/a> products.<\/p>\n

We can also vote (though gerrymandering and other nasty tricks have helped ensure that Tea Party members are almost preternaturally safe). Just the same — peeling away their politicians one by one is a value-add. If this is a game of inches, so be it.<\/p>\n

We can write to our moderate Republican politicians and demand they excise this tapeworm from within the bowels of their party.<\/p>\n

We can keep up the pressure and spread stuff like this around.<\/p>\n

The ACA has already saved lives: Author Jay Lake talks about it here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Author Kameron Hurley talks about the horror novel you’ll never have to live:<\/p>\n

Going without health care<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I’m heading out of the country soon — so, you know, let’s try to keep it together until I get back. I don’t want to fly home to find a dystopian novel made real, jeez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is worth a read. It’s a NY Times article. Suggests that the government shutdown was orchestrated by forces inside and outside the government. Koch Brothers, so-called “grassroots” organizations, and so forth. It’s also worth spreading around. Because these people don’t care about you. They don’t care about the country. They care about their bottom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20789,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784\/revisions\/20789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}