{"id":7055,"date":"2013-07-21T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2013-07-21T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T18:15:54","slug":"need-to-talk-about-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7055","title":{"rendered":"Need to talk about Detroit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with all of the drama going on with the bankruptcy in Detroit, I felt the need to comment with the latest crap from our wonderful governor on the mess there&#8230;first, I will say that some of the troubles there are a result of terrible mismanagement of the city by the string of incompetents and thieves&#8230;but, the shrinking of the city from over 2 million to under 700 thousand and the flight of most of the manufacturing base has much more to do with it&#8230;and then you have ole Snyder saying there will be no state help coming while he taxes retirees and gives almost 2 billion in tax cuts to business who have not created one job for the corporate welfare they received&#8230;isn&#8217;t Detroit part of the state too? The ones I feel the worst for are the retirees of the city of Detroit who are going to see their pensions decimated; getting only about 10 cents on the dollar that they were promised&#8230;and the bitch of it all is that they did nothing wrong&#8230;just worked their whole lives while the people in government they trusted screwed them over&#8230;.but that is the repubs way of things&#8230;if you are unlucky enough to live somewhere where this can happen, you are just out of luck&#8230;you should have used your connections to get rich instead of working&#8230;what a bunch of crap&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with all of the drama going on with the bankruptcy in Detroit, I felt the need to comment with the latest crap from our wonderful governor on the mess there&#8230;first, I will say that some of the troubles there are a result of terrible mismanagement of the city by the string of incompetents and thieves&#8230;but, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need to talk about Detroit&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30,180],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-detroit","tag-rick-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}