{"id":7748,"date":"2014-04-09T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T21:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/basic-services-remain-budget-victims\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T04:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T11:25:32","slug":"basic-services-remain-budget-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/basic-services-remain-budget-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic services remain budget victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Some of you have asked why I voted no on Prop 1 (to fund Metro Transit and roads).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I have many reasons. One is: why is it when cutting the budget, only services that benefit people get cut?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Education. School lunches. Art. Mental health. Children services. Parks. Music in school. Transit. Work program. Child care. 911 services. Ambulances. Police and fire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You get the idea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Every state I have lived in cut these programs first.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Is it that we, as humans care about humans, will pay to see these services not be cut?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Do our elected officials know our weakness and take advantage of our compassions? And target these programs?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And when the economy picks up, the taxes will stay. No sunset on these babies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And still Boeing and Microsoft get a free ride.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Does this seem fair to you?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Jodi Riker<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you have asked why I voted no on Prop 1 (to fund Metro Transit and roads).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748"}],"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=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}