{"id":819,"date":"2005-07-15T23:36:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","slug":"a_joke_but_whos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"A Joke (but who&#8217;s laughing?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-explainer15jul15,1,6437619.story?coll=la-headlines-california\" target=\"browser\">so<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;the former head of the Los Angeles Urban League, sheriff&#8217;s deputies from San Francisco and Orange Counties, a lawyer for a large home-building company and a leader of a textile workers union<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>walk into a bar.<\/p>\n<p>What do they all have in common?<\/p>\n<p>Two obvious things, as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n<p>First, they are all, in one way or another highly dependent on government policy for their financial well-bring (note that the same could be said of a defense contractor, an insurance company executive or a host of others). <\/p>\n<p>Second, they are the ones who set the compensation of the California legislators and constitutional officials. In the face of an ongoing state fiscal crisis, they just gave the legislators a 12% raise.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>I notice the potential for some seriously distorting feedback here. What do you think??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice the potential for some seriously distorting feedback here. What do you think??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}