{"id":1690,"date":"2011-03-01T22:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2011-03-02T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:03:17","slug":"yes-i-have-an-axe-to-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I have an axe to grind!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1691\" title=\"cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cover.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cover-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><strong>I believe\u00a0our government \u2013 all levels of government \u2013 <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><strong>has got too big, is growing too fast, <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><strong>and with no thought as to the costs to Canadians.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">So, as a frustrated taxpayer, who is a libertarian-at-heart, I have posted a half dozen snippets of what is wrong with our Big Government (not that I have specific answers to the conundrum other than to CUT).\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">For the more than 30 posts on \u201cBig Government\u201d in the <em>By George Journal<\/em>, surf through this menu:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?tag=big-government\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?tag=big-government<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe\u00a0our government \u2013 all levels of government \u2013 has got too big, is growing too fast, and with no thought as to the costs to Canadians. So, as a frustrated taxpayer, who is a libertarian-at-heart, I have posted a half dozen snippets of what is wrong with our Big Government (not that I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52,35,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}