{"id":5537,"date":"2011-11-15T08:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2011-11-15T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:29:42","slug":"rick-perry-loves-big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/rick-perry-loves-big-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry Loves Big Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as long as he&#8217;s feeding off of it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> the legacy media is picking up on what I\u2019ve been saying for years \u2014 that the Secessionist decries \u201csocialism\u201d out of one side of his mouth while the other side is sucking on the federal teat&#8230;. &#8220;Perry sought and received $24.2 billion in stimulus funding for Texas while saying the program was bad federal policy. He helped secure more than $100 million to protect against drug violence and illegal immigration on the Mexican border. The governor also endorsed his state\u2019s request for money under President Barack Obama\u2019s new health care law, though he now promises to help repeal the measure should he win the White House.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2011\/11\/14\/ap-report-under-rick-perry-texas-dependence-on-federal-goverment-has-increased\/\">Read about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as long as he&#8217;s feeding off of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[284],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1rj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}