{"id":152,"date":"2007-11-07T19:15:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T23:15:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-03T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:50:53","slug":"speak-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Speak Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether I agree with the results, or not, I&#39;m excited to see our electoral system on a local level still works.<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today, everyone in Indianapolis learned that yesterday the public spoke with their votes.&nbsp; The incumbents were forced to listen as most of them were voted OUT.&nbsp; Much speculation is being bandied about as to why voters replaced the government here.&nbsp; I would venture to say it has nearly everything to do with all taxes being increased.&nbsp; Out of control crime probably plays a part in these results as well.&nbsp; As does secret agendas and under the table deals.&nbsp; Or maybe it was because public funds (read taxes) were wasted on funding private enterprises and suddenly there wasn&#39;t enough cash left to pay for social services.&nbsp; Maybe it was partly because the current administration was hell bent on making Indianapolis a major player, the new Chicago, and what we get with it is over spending, corruption, and increased crime.<\/p>\n<p>The important lesson here is one for the remaining office holders and those newly elected.&nbsp; Represent us, stop wasting public funds, be honest in your political ambition&#8230; OR ELSE you&#39;ll lose your job the next time the polls open.&nbsp; Govnah Mitch, Brian Bosma, be very afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether I agree with the results, or not, I&#39;m excited to see our electoral system on a local level still works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indiana","category-state"],"views":1840,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}