{"id":880,"date":"2003-01-22T14:43:32","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T06:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/22\/state-of-the-union\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:45:59","slug":"state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/22\/state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15452,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/publicampaign.org\\\/stateoftheunion\\\/index.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A nice &#8216;State of the Union&#8217; political poster has been released, either for sale or freely downloadable and distributable as a PDF file:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicampaign.org\/stateoftheunion\/index.htm\" title=\"Congress meets Wall Street\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Congress meets Wall Street\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/01\/graphics\/stateoftheunion.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Some people think it&#8217;s more important to give a big campaign contribution than to vote&#8230;that it&#8217;s &#8220;the American way&#8221; to buy access and influence with big money&#8230;that it&#8217;s OK if public policy is sold to the highest bidder. Some even think that the only real democracy is in the marketplace, where we all supposedly vote with our dollars.<\/p>\n<p>  Well, we at Public Campaign disagree, and we believe so do a lot of other Americans. Which is why we created the &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; poster. Because we wanted to use one picture to say what a thousand words couldn&#8217;t say about the union of big money and Washington.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just might be printing one of these out at work tomorrow&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think it&#8217;s more important to give a big campaign contribution than to vote&hellip;that it&#8217;s &#8220;the American way&#8221; to buy access and influence with big money&hellip;that it&#8217;s OK if public policy is sold to the highest bidder. Some even think that the only real democracy is in the marketplace, where we all supposedly vote with our dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}