{"id":88,"date":"2007-03-29T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/theodoric-of-lansing\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T13:22:32","slug":"theodoric-of-lansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Theodoric of Lansing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0591.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0591.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0591.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, March 19, 2007<\/p>\n<p>I know. I know. Again with the Michigan budget woes! But this week&#8217;s comic is a simple plea with a simple explanation: Perhaps Michigan leaders might take a look around to other, more successful Midwestern states (and apparently all of them are in fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/grandrapids\/stories\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-35\/1175084704164060.xml&#038;coll=6\">more successful<\/a>) to see what they are doing. Just pandering to beleaguered Michiganians with tax cuts, tax cuts, and more tax cuts seems a medieval solution to a modern problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/grandrapids\/stories\/index.ssf?\/base\/business-4\/1173883521225520.xml&#038;coll=6\">Brave Republicans<\/a> (that is, ones no longer seeking public office) have been speaking out on this.<\/p>\n<p>But this all might be crazy talk. I mean, hey, who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/77\/77rtheodoric.phtml\">the barber<\/a> here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, March 19, 2007 I know. I know. Again with the Michigan budget woes! But this week&#8217;s comic is a simple plea with a simple explanation: Perhaps Michigan leaders might take a look around to other, more successful Midwestern states (and apparently all of them are in fact [&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-88","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\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}