{"id":460,"date":"2015-06-29T04:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:07","slug":"the-thing-about-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-thing-about-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t done any homework on this, but wasn\u2019t state funding (not the communist understanding of the word State, but the American, as in \u201cthe several states\u201d) required to keep this thing in bounds for the method of passage chosen? All sorts of accounting tricks were used to keep it \u201cbudget neutral\u201d, so that it didn\u2019t require a supermajority somewhere at a critical juncture.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The abuses of this mechanism were legion in the passage of this bill, and part of why I consider the whole thing null on its face. Screw em. They can force me to comply for now, but they cannot force me to agree. Ah, screw it.<\/p>\n<p>Y\u2019all know what I mean, and not one mind will be changed. But didn\u2019t that matter at some point, up until we collectively agreed to let tortured legalistic definitions impress us right out of our rights? Was this one of the things in the bucket of \u201cif the Fed has to pay, it busts budget neutrality\u201d?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"460\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"460\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t done any homework on this, but wasn\u2019t state funding (not the communist understanding of the word State, but the American, as in \u201cthe several states\u201d) required to keep this thing in bounds for the method of passage chosen? All sorts of accounting tricks were used to keep it \u201cbudget neutral\u201d, so that it didn\u2019t require a supermajority somewhere at a critical juncture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"460\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"460\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}