{"id":128,"date":"2001-03-23T23:48:23","date_gmt":"2001-03-24T04:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2001\/03\/23\/2911323\/"},"modified":"2001-03-23T23:48:23","modified_gmt":"2001-03-24T04:48:23","slug":"2911323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2001\/03\/23\/2911323\/","title":{"rendered":"2911323"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Representative Democracy?  Yeah Right.<\/h3>\n<p>Max sent me this e-mail this morning.  It represents just another reason why I am so frustrated with society (and society as reflected in our elected officials).  More and more, government and people in power in general don&#8217;t represent me.  In particular, look to the statistics about drug charges and drunk driving.   <\/p>\n<p><i>&gt;Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500<br \/>\n&gt;employees and has the following statistics:<br \/>\n&gt;*29 have been accused of spousal abuse<br \/>\n&gt;*7 have been arrested for fraud<br \/>\n&gt;*19 have been accused of writing bad checks<br \/>\n&gt;*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two businesses<br \/>\n&gt;*3 have done time for assault<br \/>\n&gt;*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit<br \/>\n&gt;*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges<br \/>\n&gt;*8 have been arrested for shoplifting<br \/>\n&gt;*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits<br \/>\n&gt;*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;Can you guess which organization this is? Give up yet?  It&#8217;s the 535<br \/>\n&gt;members of the United States Congress. The same group of idiots that<br \/>\n&gt;crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest<br \/>\n&gt;of us in line.<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;I rest my case.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Democracy? Yeah Right. Max sent me this e-mail this morning. It represents just another reason why I am so frustrated with society (and society as reflected in our elected officials). More and more, government and people in power in general don&#8217;t represent me. In particular, look to the statistics about drug charges and drunk&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2001\/03\/23\/2911323\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2911323<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4wnIz-2911323","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}