{"id":11378,"date":"2011-09-23T08:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11378"},"modified":"2011-09-23T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:53:34","slug":"video-government-stupidity-wheres-the-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11378\/video-government-stupidity-wheres-the-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Government Stupidity! Where’s the App for That?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week’s Freedom Minute<\/a><\/em>, CFIF’s Renee Giachino comments on the U.S. Department of Labor’s new smart phone app, designed to help outdoor workers prevent heat illness by informing them of… well… the temperature outside.\u00a0\u00a0The Labor Department is not yet able to calculate its costs to taxpayers.\u00a0 “Yes, that’s your government at work,” says Giachino. “They can tell you what temperature it is outside, but not how much it cost them to tell you. Maybe there should be an app for that.”<\/p>\n

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In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino comments on the U.S. Department of Labor’s new smart phone app, designed to help outdoor workers prevent heat illness by informing them of… well… the temperature outside.\u00a0\u00a0The Labor Department is not yet able to calculate its costs to taxpayers.\u00a0 “Yes, that’s your government at work,” says Giachino. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2135,83,155,273],"class_list":["post-11378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-department-of-labor","tag-freedom-minute","tag-taxpayer-funding","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}