{"id":189808,"date":"2010-02-10T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/a-good-start-16\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:46:00","slug":"a-good-start-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/a-good-start-16\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Mexico legislature has just voted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/09\/new-mexico-house-votes-65_n_456043.html\">move a significant portion of the state bank accounts to small community banks and credit unions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Mexico&#8217;s House of Representatives voted Monday to pass a bill that allows the state to move $2 billion &#8211; $5 billion of state funds to credit unions and small banks.<\/p>\n<p>The municipal funds bill was approved 65-0, and is subject to a vote by New Mexico&#8217;s Senate. Governor Bill Richardson told the bill&#8217;s sponsor that he supports the legislation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good start.<\/p>\n<p>If we can defund the to big to fail institutions, they shrink, and lose influence in the corridors of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Mexico legislature has just voted to move a significant portion of the state bank accounts to small community banks and credit unions: New Mexico&#8217;s House of Representatives voted Monday to pass a bill that allows the state to move $2 billion &#8211; $5 billion of state funds to credit unions and small banks. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189808"}],"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=189808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}