{"id":2553,"date":"2005-07-29T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:41:30","slug":"state-legislator-opens-her-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/29\/state-legislator-opens-her-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"State Legislator Opens Her Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/editorialcommentary\/story\/83DDD8E134F6EE9A8625704C00322225?OpenDocument&#038;highlight=2%2C%22matt%22+AND+%22blunt%22\" target=\"_new\">op-ed<\/a> from one of Missouri&#8217;s state legislators regarding Medicaid budget cuts:<\/p>\n<blockquotei><p>Before voting against the Medicaid and adoption-subsidy cuts, I urged my fellow legislators to remember that we must accept responsibility for what happens to Missourians who lose health coverage and necessary family supports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I laud this legislator for taking personal responsibility for helping out the underprivileged and by conceding her own income to ensure they have a minimum level of sustenance&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Aw, hell, who am I kidding?  By <i>we must accept responsibility<\/i>, she means <i>we must compel the citizens of Missouri to take fiscal responsibility<\/i>.  Her only effort needs to be to act to ensure that others must act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an op-ed from one of Missouri&#8217;s state legislators regarding Medicaid budget cuts: Before voting against the Medicaid and adoption-subsidy cuts, I urged my fellow legislators to remember that we must accept responsibility for what happens to Missourians who lose health coverage and necessary family supports. I laud this legislator for taking personal responsibility for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19479,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/19479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}