{"id":957,"date":"2013-05-20T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=957"},"modified":"2013-05-20T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:06:08","slug":"reich-the-hollowing-out-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/reich-the-hollowing-out-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Reich: The Hollowing-Out of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.businessinsider.com\/image\/516f8b816bb3f71226000002-1489-1117\/west-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion.jpg?resize=148%2C112\" width=\"148\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my friend Bob Rohr for pointing out this <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2013\/05\/19\/the-hollowing-out-of-government\/\">great piece by Robert Reich<\/a>. \u00a0Reich documents how the GOP systematically underfunds and undermines our ability to do the things we have agreed need doing. \u00a0(Then they have the temerity to complain about how government isn&#8217;t working. \u00a0They promise ineffectiveness and they deliver it!)<\/p>\n<p>For example, the West, Texas explosion was thoroughly preventable, if we had only funded OSHA inspections adequately. \u00a0That neglect &#8211; by design on the part of the GOP &#8211; cost lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2013\/05\/19\/the-hollowing-out-of-government\/\">Here&#8217;s Robert Reich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8flADdPMMeQ?feature=player_embedded\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- sktbuilder starter --><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/plugins\/skt-builder\/sktbuilder\/sktbuilder-frontend-starter.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/plugins\/skt-builder\/sktbuilder-wordpress-driver.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var starter = new SktbuilderStarter({\"mode\": \"prod\", \"skip\":[\"jquery\",\"underscore\",\"backbone\"],\"sktbuilderUrl\": \"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/plugins\/skt-builder\/sktbuilder\/\", \"driver\": new SktbuilderWordpressDriver({\"ajaxUrl\": \"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\", \"iframeUrl\": \"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/reich-the-hollowing-out-of-government\/?sktbuilder=true\", \"pageId\": 957,  \"nonce\": \"4d2216e7f6\", \"pages\": [{\"title\":\"NTD Officers\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/napervilledemocrats.org\\\/ntdo\\\/wp-admin\\\/post.php?post=475&action=sktbuilder\"},{\"title\":\"2022 Election\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/napervilledemocrats.org\\\/ntdo\\\/wp-admin\\\/post.php?post=11490&action=sktbuilder\"}], \"page\": \"Reich: The Hollowing-Out of Government\" }) });<\/script><!-- end sktbuilder starter -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my friend Bob Rohr for pointing out this great piece by Robert Reich. \u00a0Reich documents how the GOP systematically underfunds and undermines our ability to do the things<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/reich-the-hollowing-out-of-government\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,24,77],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dysfunctional-government","tag-extremist-gop-2","tag-reich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/west-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion.jpg?fit=1489%2C1117&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzCg-fr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}