{"id":213,"date":"2008-11-21T05:17:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/one-of-our-own-in-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T05:17:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T10:17:22","slug":"one-of-our-own-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"One of Our Own in the White House&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0681.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0681.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0681.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, November 10, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Cases-in-point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michigan has been in recession for, oh, eight years: nothing.\u00a0Other states go into recession this year: massive funding.<\/li>\n<li>Michigan has been foreclosing houses the traditional way &#8212; we lost our jobs &#038; health care and went broke: nothing. Other states start foreclosing house because of endless speculation building, flipping, and creative(!) financing: massive funding.<\/li>\n<li>Michigan automakers ask for free $25 billion handout: nothing. Financial institutions on the coasts ask for free $700 billion handout: massive funding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, November 10, 2008 Cases-in-point: Michigan has been in recession for, oh, eight years: nothing.\u00a0Other states go into recession this year: massive funding. Michigan has been foreclosing houses the traditional way &#8212; we lost our jobs &#038; health care and went broke: nothing. Other states start foreclosing house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}