{"id":5691,"date":"2010-03-08T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2010-03-08T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:04:36","slug":"but-for-the-lack-of-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/but-for-the-lack-of-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"But For The Lack Of Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the implications of this, right?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/86773287.html\" target=\"_blank\">County transit ridership falls 9%<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMilwaukee County Transit System ridership plunged to a 35-year low last year as the bus system was battered by the recession, a fare increase and a pullout of Milwaukee Public Schools students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This means that we could trim the budget and cut back since ridership is down.  Ha, ha, WRONG!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 9% ridership drop adds urgency to a push for new state legislation that would create an expanded regional transit authority and authorize a 0.5% sales tax to fund the bus system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The day is sunny?  <em>The government must have more money.<\/em>  The day is rainy?  <em>The government must have more money.<\/em>  Ridership is up?  <em>The government must have more money.<\/em>  Ridership is down?  <em>The government must have more money.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the implications of this, right? County transit ridership falls 9%: Milwaukee County Transit System ridership plunged to a 35-year low last year as the bus system was battered by the recession, a fare increase and a pullout of Milwaukee Public Schools students. This means that we could trim the budget and cut back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}