{"id":95,"date":"2016-06-27T19:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T19:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2016-06-27T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T19:54:15","slug":"screwed-and-screwers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/screwed-and-screwers\/","title":{"rendered":"Screwed and Screwers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the average Joe contributes five or ten dollars to a<\/p>\n<p>political campaign, what does he hope for? Good governance?,<\/p>\n<p>better education for his kids?, improved roads and bridges<\/p>\n<p>to travel on?, the opportunity to make a decent living?,<\/p>\n<p>better health care or any health care?.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the above surely would be yes.<\/p>\n<p>When the average multi-millionaire gives hundreds of<\/p>\n<p>thousands or millions of dollars to a political campaign<\/p>\n<p>what are his motives? Good governance?, that&#8217;s a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Better education for his children?, they&#8217;re already<\/p>\n<p>enrolled in Harvard, Yale or Princeton, or will be when<\/p>\n<p>they come of age. Improved roads and bridges?, ha!,<\/p>\n<p>he travels in his own personal jet. The opportunity<\/p>\n<p>to make a decent living?, that&#8217;s absurd. Better health<\/p>\n<p>care?, he has a health plan the equal of any congressman&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>or superior to it.<\/p>\n<p>No, he expects one thing only and that is systemic corrupt-<\/p>\n<p>ion which benefits him and his kind financially.<\/p>\n<p>End of statement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Islander<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the average Joe contributes five or ten dollars to a political campaign, what does he hope for? Good governance?, better education for his kids?, improved roads and bridges to travel on?, the opportunity to make a decent living?, better health care or any health care?. The answer to the above surely would be yes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/screwed-and-screwers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Screwed and Screwers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}