{"id":1169,"date":"2009-03-17T01:18:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T07:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2009-03-22T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:22:02","slug":"monday-morning-linkorama-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>And people wonder why NYC has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/03\/oh-that-joe-no.html\">money problems<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia seems eager to follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7944564.stm\">Zimbabwe<\/a> example.  I&#8217;m sure it will have the same merry results.<\/li>\n<li>Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/03\/oh-that-joe-no.html\">another<\/a> way big business and government are crushing competition &#8212; cattle tagging.<\/li>\n<li>The trade wars <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123723192240845769.html?mod=djemalertNEWS\">heat up<\/a>.  Mexico is imposing tariffs in response to our stupid ban on Mexican trucks.  Looks like Depression II is moving right along.<\/li>\n<li>The push for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/132214.html\">longer school year<\/a> creeps me out.  Can&#8217;t we let kids be kids at all?  The problem with our schools isn&#8217;t that kids aren&#8217;t in them enough &#8230; the problem is that the schools are a monopoly.<\/li>\n<li>Obama wants to spend a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/front\/6312032.html\">billion bucks<\/a> helping the small businesses he&#8217;s extracting tens of billions in new taxes from.  I guess it make sense, after you&#8217;ve cut off and eaten someone&#8217;s leg, to throw them the bone.<\/li>\n<li>The piling on to Jim Cramer is just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/132270.html\">stupid<\/a>.  He wasn&#8217;t the one who resisted regulating Freddie and Fannie, was he?<\/li>\n<li>Putin continues his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/132205.html\">repulsive reign<\/a>.  In the end, Bush&#8217;s remark that he looked into Putin&#8217;s soul may go down as the dumbest thing he ever said.  And that&#8217;s saying something.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And people wonder why NYC has money problems. Bolivia seems eager to follow the Zimbabwe example. I&#8217;m sure it will have the same merry results. Yet another way big business and government are crushing competition &#8212; cattle tagging. The trade wars heat up. Mexico is imposing tariffs in response to our stupid ban on Mexican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday Morning Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-iR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}