{"id":183770,"date":"2012-11-27T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/27\/because-no-one-in-washington-believes-in-public-works-for-the-public-good\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T01:21:00","slug":"because-no-one-in-washington-believes-in-public-works-for-the-public-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/27\/because-no-one-in-washington-believes-in-public-works-for-the-public-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Because No One in Washington Believes In Public Works for the Public Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/draft_lens17079361module144318971ph.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>Duncan Black <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2012\/11\/maybe-i-am-stoopid.html\">wonders why Obama&#8217;s infrastructure plans have so much added complexity in order to accommodate private investors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I like me some infrastructure spending. I do not know why the government, which can borrow money for free, needs a rube goldberg machine with added middlemen to make it happen.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one is simple:  There is a Washington consensus about public projects these days, it&#8217;s that giving some rich dude the opportunity to earn a profit at taxpayer expense, is essential because of<b> <i>capitalism<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What are you a commie pinko or something?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the free market mousketeers are basically corrupt ratf%$#s.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">BT<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">W, that is one <b>seriously<\/b> fat cat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan Black wonders why Obama&#8217;s infrastructure plans have so much added complexity in order to accommodate private investors: I like me some infrastructure spending. I do not know why the government, which can borrow money for free, needs a rube goldberg machine with added middlemen to make it happen. This one is simple: There is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,970,1009,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-corruption","category-government","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}