{"id":3879,"date":"2007-07-10T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2017-11-26T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T21:54:32","slug":"credit-where-credits-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/10\/credit-where-credits-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Where Credit&#8217;s Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/3E410FA4E288AC4E862573140012312D?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Missouri has a budget surplus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Missouri could be sitting on a $320 million budget surplus because of higher-than-expected tax revenues and lower-than-expected spending during the recently concluded fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers had intended to leave about $200 million unspent when passing the state&#8217;s $21.5 billion operating budget for the 2008 fiscal year, which started July 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny, it&#8217;s the heartless <i><b>Matt Blunt<\/b><\/i> and the <b><i>Republicans<\/i><\/b> in the legislature that cut the budget, but it&#8217;s <i><b>Missouri<\/b><\/i> that has the surplus.<\/p>\n<p>Never fear, though, our elected troughhogs are working to change that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unless lawmakers take additional action, that money will remain unspent. But politicians already are proposing ways to use part of that surplus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I call racism.  What do lawmakers have against being in the <i>black<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri has a budget surplus: Missouri could be sitting on a $320 million budget surplus because of higher-than-expected tax revenues and lower-than-expected spending during the recently concluded fiscal year. Lawmakers had intended to leave about $200 million unspent when passing the state&#8217;s $21.5 billion operating budget for the 2008 fiscal year, which started July 1. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","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=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17968,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/17968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}