{"id":1037,"date":"2014-06-24T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2014-06-24T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:51:19","slug":"bob-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/24\/bob-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Joe Trippi posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lorelei-kelly\/we-need-a-citizen-maker-m_b_5524157.html?utm_hp_ref=tw\" target=\"new\">this on Twitter..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find a few things incredible about it.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>While calling for innovation, his preferred politicians do their best to stymie any sort of innovation when it affects contributors, and;<\/li>\n<li>The politicians they do elect, who enacted new regulations, and selectively enforced others, actively work to reinforce teh bad practice(s) \u00a0the innovators are working to replace.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Invented a new way for people to get from place to place without using the overpriced taxi services?  Sweet!  Please vote for us!  Nevermind that we&#8217;ll just go shut it down after the election, saying that you&#8217;re not complying with some regulation we chose not to enforce before.<\/p>\n<p>Found a new way to do business?  Yeah, about that.  Because you didn&#8217;t pay proper <a href=\"\/=%22http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racket_(crime)%22\" target=\"new\">protection<\/a>, I mean, get the proper paper certifications, you can&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, you know those laws that say people have a right to work?  Our friend Marvin is going to run a secret poll of your workers to see if they want union representation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s disgusting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Joe Trippi posted this on Twitter.. I find a few things incredible about it. While calling for innovation, his preferred politicians do their best to stymie any sort of innovation when it affects contributors, and; The politicians they do elect, who enacted new regulations, and selectively enforced others, actively work to reinforce teh bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}