{"id":442,"date":"2008-04-08T05:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/04\/08\/no-money-blues\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:15:13","slug":"no-money-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/no-money-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"more no money blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/everyday.3yen.com\/wp-content\/images\/no-money-2.jpg?resize=219%2C300\" height=\"300\" style=\"width: 92px; height: 114px\" \/><\/span><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%\">I\u2019ve been called for a special meeting of the SC Senate Finance Committee to be held on Tuesday, April 8 at 10 am. I understand\u00a0the BEA has determined some new bad news. We\u2019ve been dealing with a shortfall of at least $50 million and I think this number will get bigger. I could rant and rave because we didn\u2019t cut taxes enough to jump start our anemic economy last year with a surplus of $1.5 billion.\u00a0 I could plea: why did we allow government to almost double in my first term alone? I could holler: I told ya\u2019ll so! I could continue to spew at the granite columns in the statehouse&#8230;they may listen. As you already know, common sense in Columbia is not common. You\u2019ve heard these tunes many, many times already.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nWhat do we do now? Continue to scrutinize the budget for more special projects to cut? Gaze at each Agency for inefficient spending? Stay tuned\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been called for a special meeting of the SC Senate Finance Committee to be held on Tuesday, April 8 at 10 am. I understand\u00a0the BEA has determined some new bad news. We\u2019ve been dealing with a shortfall of at least $50 million and I think this number will get bigger. I could rant and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-78","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}