{"id":101,"date":"2011-08-24T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=101"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:45:38","slug":"2009dec21-elephants-and-asses-screwing-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/101","title":{"rendered":"2009DEC21 – Elephants and Asses, screwing the Masses!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elephants and Asses, screwing the Masses<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 I love that bumper sticker!\u00a0\u00a0 This morning the Senate passed the Health Care bill, now it is time to reconcile it with the House version.\u00a0 I’m not endorsing either parties plan, because I haven’t studied either on.\u00a0 I am just saying that both sides suck.\u00a0 I am a registered independent.\u00a0 I think there should be term limits and everything that can be given to the states should be. It appears that once again Congress is trying to grab a power that should reside in the States; that is my issue with the Health Care Bill.\u00a0 I am curious what others think.\u00a0 If you have a comment, please post a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elephants and Asses, screwing the Masses.\u00a0 I love that bumper sticker!\u00a0\u00a0 This morning the Senate passed the Health Care bill, now it is time to reconcile it with the House version.\u00a0 I’m not endorsing either parties plan, because I haven’t … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":905,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/905","url_meta":{"origin":101,"position":0},"title":"My take on gun control..","author":"DR D","date":"April 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Good morning everyone!\u00a0 My cat and I were in a deep discussion yesterday regarding all the ranting going on over gun control. 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