{"id":22713,"date":"2011-09-17T23:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T05:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/17\/unblogged-bits-sat-17-sep-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:31:15","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-17-sep-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/17\/unblogged-bits-sat-17-sep-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 17-Sep-11 2330)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….<\/p>\n
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  1. John Boehner: ‘Job Creators Are Essentially On Strike’<\/a> – I think someone’s been reading too much Ayn Rand.<\/li>\n
  2. After Claiming To Support Infrastructure Investments, House GOP Blocks Infrastructure Investment Plan | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. John Boehner: ‘Job Creators Are Essentially On Strike’ – I think someone’s been reading too much Ayn Rand. After Claiming To Support Infrastructure Investments, House GOP Blocks Infrastructure Investment Plan | ThinkProgress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,358,16,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35092,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/infrastructure-and-investment.html","url_meta":{"origin":22713,"position":0},"title":"Infrastructure and Investment","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-May-13 7:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fundamental GOP Position: \"We're happy to spend on infrastructure as long as poor people are paying for it through program cuts.\"Reshared post from +Cynthi S. 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