{"id":3623,"date":"2021-05-07T06:29:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:29:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:29:25","slug":"feeling-better-after-the-cleanse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3623","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Better After the Cleanse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JPA290.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JPA290.jpg\" alt=\"Feeling Better After the Cleanse\" class=\"wp-image-3624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JPA290.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JPA290-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I usually try to stay away from sweeping generalizations \u2014 all workers good, all politicians bad \u2014 that sort of thing. But there has been so much partisan hackery lately (especially in Lansing) that I felt a need to comment, and sweeping generalization seemed to be the best angle to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michigan is sitting on a bunch of money right now, federal funds from the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan. Much of how it will be spent is&nbsp;up to&nbsp;our&nbsp;state government in Lansing, which is by design and mostly a good thing. But unfortunately&nbsp;a significant portion&nbsp;has been held up by the legislature playing a game of chicken with Governor Whitmer, using it as leverage to&nbsp;extract political gain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is,&nbsp;the money is actually needed&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;especially&nbsp;by workers and small business owners.&nbsp;Yes, ours is not a swift process. (Again,&nbsp;by design and mostly a good thing because it&#8217;s important to be good stewards of the money.) But&nbsp;slowing the distribution further&nbsp;is at best a needless sideshow and at worst a dereliction of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually try to stay away from sweeping generalizations \u2014 all workers good, all politicians bad \u2014 that sort of thing. But there has been so much partisan hackery lately (especially in Lansing) that I felt a need to comment, and sweeping generalization seemed to be the best angle to take. Michigan is sitting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","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=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}