{"id":3758,"date":"2007-05-14T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2017-11-29T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:02:11","slug":"framing-dear-brian-framing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/framing-dear-brian-framing\/","title":{"rendered":"Framing, Dear Brian, Framing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rapacious government doing whatever it can to extract money from its citizens to fund dubious programs?  The <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> cannot tear itself off of the legs of the monied political class.  Wait, it&#8217;s not just poor governance!  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/5C05F5100688088F862572DA000E2242?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">predatory bullying<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some homeowners fuming over reassessment left a town hall meeting here Saturday feeling bounced around by government with no way to fight the double-digit percentage jump in home values.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The politicians create a bureaucratic jungle,&#8221; said Bill Powers, 72, whose Ladue home&#8217;s assessed value rose 39 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The county points to the state. The state points to the county \u2014 and they all point to the computer system&#8221; that compiles the numbers, Powers said. &#8220;The system is flawed, and it&#8217;s predatory.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, <i>yeah<\/i>, that&#8217;s how the governments that the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> continually rah-rahs work.  They take more and more money from citizens to fund the development projects and other goofball projects for which the paper asks us to &#8220;Gimme a G!  Gimme an O! Gimme a V!  Gimme a E!&#8221; and so on.<\/p>\n<p>One must wonder how much the landowners at the top of <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> masthead got soaked to allow citizens to feel bullied in print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rapacious government doing whatever it can to extract money from its citizens to fund dubious programs? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch cannot tear itself off of the legs of the monied political class. Wait, it&#8217;s not just poor governance! It&#8217;s predatory bullying: Some homeowners fuming over reassessment left a town hall meeting here Saturday feeling [&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-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","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=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18090,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/18090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}