{"id":152,"date":"2008-01-14T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-01-14T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T19:24:00","slug":"michigan-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Michigan idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The republican candidates are campaigning in Michigan for tomorrow&#8217;s primary. I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m still surprised, but I am. Every year, politicians promise that they&#8217;ll do things to improve the economy, to improve people&#8217;s standards of living. Just once, and especially in Michigan, I&#8217;d like someone to say that they aren&#8217;t going to do a damn thing for a particular state. It should not be the federal government&#8217;s job (and therefore everyone&#8217;s money) to help a place that has consistently shot itself in the foot. It&#8217;s one thing if every state is in bad shape. I could at least understand the argument that the feds should do something about it, but one state? C&#8217;mon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If Michigan&#8217;s wants to improve, it will have to do it on its own. If the people think that the state is underperforming, they should take a look at some of the states that are doing well and then model their approach on the successes of those states. Instead, they engage in wishful thinking. It&#8217;s time that things changed in Michigan, and it&#8217;s time for the people of Michigan to do something instead of blaming other people (the Chinese, the Indians, etc.) and expecting other people to solve their problems. <\/p>\n<p>Michigan, heal thyself!<\/p>\n<div>tags technorati : <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/economics\" rel=\"tag\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/michigan\" rel=\"tag\">michigan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/primary\" rel=\"tag\">primary<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ron\" rel=\"tag\">ron<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/paul\" rel=\"tag\">paul<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/outsourcing\" rel=\"tag\">outsourcing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/free\" rel=\"tag\">free<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/trade\" rel=\"tag\">trade<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The republican candidates are campaigning in Michigan for tomorrow&#8217;s primary. I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m still surprised, but I am. Every year, politicians promise that they&#8217;ll do things to improve the economy, to improve people&#8217;s standards of living. Just once, and especially in Michigan, I&#8217;d like someone to say that they aren&#8217;t going to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}