{"id":32115,"date":"2013-01-08T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/fungible-and-games.html"},"modified":"2013-01-08T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:10:02","slug":"fungible-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/fungible-and-games.html","title":{"rendered":"Fungible and Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Ms Ingraham, if you are going to use the idea that money is fungible, so that even if the federal tax dollars that go to Planned Parenthood are earmarked for a variety of women&#39;s health services excluding (by law)\u00a0abortions, it still means that federal taxes are paying for abortions, too &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; then does that mean that tax dollars that go to religious organizations for their public services (adoption services, hospitals, universities, faith-based programs) are thus fungible and are paying for church building upkeep and pastors&#39; salaries? \u00a0Because I <i>really<\/i> don&#39;t think you or Fox News want to go there.<\/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:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/20130108-plannedparenthood-services.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' 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:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/foxs-distorted-picture-of-how-planned-parenthoo\/192092'>Fox&#8217;s Distorted Picture Of How Planned Parenthood Spends Federal Funds<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFox News misrepresented how Planned Parenthood uses the federal funds it receives, falsely suggesting the organization spends hundreds of millions of federal dollars on abortions. In fact, Planned Par&#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\/7mcT3rbGpDb' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Ms Ingraham, if you are going to use the idea that money is fungible, so that even if the federal tax dollars that go to Planned Parenthood are earmarked for a variety of women&#39;s health services excluding (by law)\u00a0abortions, it still means that federal taxes are paying for abortions, too &#8230; &#8230; then does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/fungible-and-games.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fungible and Games&#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_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32115","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":132620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/executive-orders-are-patriotic-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":32115,"position":0},"title":"Executive Orders are Patriotic Again!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Jan-17 1:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And on this morning's hit parade:1. 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