{"id":780,"date":"2007-04-14T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=780"},"modified":"2007-04-14T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T18:09:33","slug":"whose-salary-do-you-not-mind-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Whose Salary Do You Not Mind Paying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An awkward question, but this is tax weekend for some of us, and going through my invoices and pay stubs, it brought to mind how very hard I worked last year.  You probably did, too.<br \/>\nSo, I was wondering whose salary, on either the State or Federal level, you resent (or don&#8217;t resent) funding with a hefty slice of the 2006 income that cost you so much blood, sweat and tears?<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a list to consider:<br \/>\nHillary Clinton<br \/>\nBarack Obama<br \/>\nDr. Condolezza Rice<br \/>\nGeorge W. Bush<br \/>\nDick Cheney<br \/>\nJohn Kerry<br \/>\nTed Kennedy<br \/>\nYour state rep (mine is Jeff Perry)<br \/>\nYour state senator (mine is Bob O&#8217;Leary)<br \/>\nYour governor (mine was Mitt Romney in 2005)<br \/>\nWell, except for Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), no one at the national level comes to mind as worthy of my life energy (= money).<br \/>\nLocally: I am very happy to pay Jeff Perry&#8217;s salary.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s two people.  What&#8217;s your tally?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An awkward question, but this is tax weekend for some of us, and going through my invoices and pay stubs, it brought to mind how very hard I worked last year. You probably did, too. So, I was wondering whose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=780\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}