{"id":354,"date":"2009-09-11T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-09-11T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T16:24:05","slug":"what-has-the-government-ever-done-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"What Has the Government Ever Done for Us?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-355\" title=\"GRBJ0723\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GRBJ07231.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0723\" width=\"560\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GRBJ07231.gif 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GRBJ07231-300x196.gif 300w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GRBJ07231-457x300.gif 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, August 31, 2009<\/p>\n<p>The easiest crowd-pleasing editorial cartoon to draw is the one with a sketch of something horrible or stupid, then slap a \u201cgovernment\u201d label on it. Yes! Stupid, horrible government! Always messing up EVERYTHING!!! Government dumb-heads! We mock you because you are stupid and horrible all of the time!!!<\/p>\n<p>Which is fine for editorial cartoonists. We\u2019re under deadlines, and we really can\u2019t be expected to think up new ideas all the time, can we? But, you\u2026 you not-editorial cartoonists! When you default to an \u201call government is bad\u201d diatribe, well, that\u2019s just being intellectually lazy.<\/p>\n<p>And while I would love to spend a couple paragraphs taking you to task, I have some work to do so I can pay all of my money in taxes to the stupid, horrible government! But I leave you with this classic from Monty Python\u2019s Life of Brian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhat Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, August 31, 2009 The easiest crowd-pleasing editorial cartoon to draw is the one with a sketch of something horrible or stupid, then slap a \u201cgovernment\u201d label on it. Yes! Stupid, horrible government! Always messing up EVERYTHING!!! Government dumb-heads! We mock you because you are stupid and horrible [&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-354","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\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}