{"id":2562,"date":"2005-08-02T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:33:30","slug":"government-official-thinks-more-government-the-obvious-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/government-official-thinks-more-government-the-obvious-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Official Thinks More Government The Obvious Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Public Museum&#8217;s savior knows the solution to problems with the cultural institutions in southeastern Wisconsin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/aug05\/345457.asp\" target=\"_new\">Not enough government<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As he prepares to take over the Milwaukee Public Museum, outgoing Waukesha County Executive Dan Finley called Monday for the creation of a regional cultural district that would oversee the museum, Boerner Botanical Gardens and other financially troubled attractions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every one of them is struggling,&#8221; Finley said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to come up with a way to support them because we can&#8217;t afford to lose any one of them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because what smaller bureaucracies cannot handle, larger ones can.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finley did not specify how such a district would be financed, but said: &#8220;This is not about suggesting a new tax.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because adding administrative apparatus, office costs, and salaries&#8211;not to mention public relations, advertising, and perks&#8211;is going to, what, come out of the pooled resources of the nearly bankrupt individual entities?<\/p>\n<p>Give me a break.  It is <i>all about<\/i> new taxes spread throughout a wider area to fund perks for Finley and his ilk and to increase their visibility within the power circles of the community.  When you see how he&#8217;s turned around the museum&#8211;with extra taxes and extra costs&#8211;think what he can do as governor.  He probably is.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font><\/b> Owen of Boots and Sabers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments_w_sidebars\/5218\/\" target=\"_new\">agrees<\/a> with my sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Public Museum&#8217;s savior knows the solution to problems with the cultural institutions in southeastern Wisconsin: Not enough government: As he prepares to take over the Milwaukee Public Museum, outgoing Waukesha County Executive Dan Finley called Monday for the creation of a regional cultural district that would oversee the museum, Boerner Botanical Gardens and [&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-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","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=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19470,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/19470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}