{"id":21875,"date":"2010-04-22T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/did-washington-state-really-cut-its-budget-by-3-billion-last-year\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:22:27","slug":"did-washington-state-really-cut-its-budget-by-3-billion-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/did-washington-state-really-cut-its-budget-by-3-billion-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Washington state really cut its budget by $3 billion last year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives Upthegrove and Orwall claim that our state government cut $3 billion from the state budget last year. If that budget was actually $3 billion less than the previous budget then I commend them. If not, they lied to us.<\/p>\n<p>Only in government is not getting what you want considered a cut.<\/p>\n<p>After watching the movie \u201cApollo 13\u201d last year, my family had considered a trip to the moon this year. That would have increased our moon-related expenses from $1.99 last year to several hundred million dollars this year. We scaled back and decided on a trip to Cape Canaveral instead. Can I really claim that I just cut my household budget by several hundred million dollars even though actual expenditures increased well over 100,000 percent, from $1.99 last year to several thousand dollars this year? People who reside in reality would scoff at such a notion.<\/p>\n<p>There are liars, damn liars, and politicians.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>John Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives Upthegrove and Orwall claim that our state government cut $3 billion from the state budget last year. If that budget was actually $3 billion less than the previous budget then I commend them. If not, they lied to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21875"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}