{"id":29013,"date":"2012-08-08T07:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/bankrupt-cities.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:27:11","slug":"bankrupt-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/bankrupt-cities.html","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupt cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some good analysis of both Stockton and San Bernardino, California, and why they went bankrupt &#8212; and, not surprisingly, it&#39;s not nearly as simple as the &quot;greedy public employee unions&quot; meme:<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trbimg.com%2Fimg-500f547a%2Fturbine%2Fla-oe-meyerson-city-bankruptcies-foreclosure-2-001%2F600' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-meyerson-city-bankruptcies-foreclosure-20120725,0,6443912.story'>Bankrupt cities? Don&#39;t blame unions<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe reporting and commentary on the bankruptcies of California cities over the last month haven&#39;t been journalism&#39;s finest hour. From reading the voluminous accounts of the fiscal woes of Stockton and&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cvArJnPg9F8' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good analysis of both Stockton and San Bernardino, California, and why they went bankrupt &#8212; and, not surprisingly, it&#39;s not nearly as simple as the &quot;greedy public employee unions&quot; meme: Embedded Link Bankrupt cities? Don&#39;t blame unions The reporting and commentary on the bankruptcies of California cities over the last month haven&#39;t been journalism&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/bankrupt-cities.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bankrupt cities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28840,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/09\/bits-and-bobs-from-2012-08-08.html","url_meta":{"origin":29013,"position":0},"title":"Bits and Bobs from 2012-08-08","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Aug-12 9:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Mars Just in case you forgot about that OTHER rover on Mars ...\u00a0- Stunning HD panorama from\u00a0Opportunity. 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