{"id":232,"date":"2004-05-05T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=232"},"modified":"2004-05-05T15:54:20","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T22:54:20","slug":"sauce-for-the-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Sauce for the goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\">Colby Cosh<\/a> derides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/columnists\/story.html?id=f688a\">the CBC&#8217;s opposition<\/a> to financial accountability and whistleblower-protection legislation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adscam has revealed the changed standards for<br \/>\n   21st-century government. When the world was young, and the government<br \/>\n   took 20% of your paycheque and gave you services that worked, you<br \/>\n   might be willing to remain what economists call &#8220;rationally ignorant&#8221;<br \/>\n   about the details. Now maybe 40% of that cheque vanishes, your<br \/>\n   mother&#8217;s coughing blood in the hallway of the nearest ER, and your<br \/>\n   country has no army. And here comes the guy from the CBC telling you<br \/>\n   that his expense account should be a state secret. No sale, comrade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Cosh derides the CBC&#8217;s opposition to financial accountability and whistleblower-protection legislation: Adscam has revealed the changed standards for 21st-century government. When the world was young, and the government took 20% of your paycheque and gave you services that worked, you might be willing to remain what economists call &#8220;rationally ignorant&#8221; about the details. Now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sauce for the goose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}