{"id":2622,"date":"2025-04-01T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:31:33","slug":"the-revolution-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2622","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe revolution begins today!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. The revolution began a while ago. You won. Now comes the executions of your &#8220;enemies&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/layoffs-begin-nations-health-agencies-111439428.html\">Mass layoffs are underway at the nation&#8217;s public health agencies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a disaster. American health care research is some of the best in the world, even if our actual health care system is a mess. For most of the twentieth century, the FDA, the NIH and the CDC where the gold standard for the world. I do not oppose efficiency. I welcome it. But the way to cut fat is with a scalpel not a chainsaw. Unless you aren&#8217;t actually operating on a patient, you&#8217;re butchering a hog. <\/p>\n<p>Remember, all this cutting isn&#8217;t so we can pay off the debt. Nope, it&#8217;s all to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthy. Enjoy the revolution, peasants. Don&#8217;t believe me? Check out the Republican budget. BTW, the one place in the government where fraud and waste are very well documented has not really been discussed. That&#8217;s at the Pentagon. Wonder why they didn&#8217;t start there? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. The revolution began a while ago. You won. Now comes the executions of your &#8220;enemies&#8221;. Mass layoffs are underway at the nation&#8217;s public health agencies This is a disaster. American health care research is some of the best in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-ethics-and-logic","category-politics-and-society"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}