{"id":3590,"date":"2010-02-03T18:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:48:20","slug":"as-goes-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3590\/as-goes-california\/","title":{"rendered":"As Goes California &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;so go aslyums masquerading as state governments throughout the nation. Despite the fact that the Golden State is staring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/09\/us\/09calif.html\" target=\"_blank\">a $20 billion budget deficit <\/a>in the face (and facing the prospect of cutting off much of the revenue they&#8217;ll need to get out of the hole thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/blog\/sanjay-varshney-and-dennis-h-tootelian\/new-study-finds-ab-32-scoping-plan-imposes-staggering-co\" target=\"_blank\">Byzantine global warming law<\/a>), policy entreprenuership is alive\u00a0and well in Sacramento. The <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.knx1070.com\/California-To-Montior-Cow-Methane-Emission\/6276468\" target=\"_blank\">latest big idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California is going to be first state in the nation to monitor cow gas emission. The state plans to install a network of computerized devices to measure methane gas emissions in places where there are lots of dairy ranches and landfills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like the state&#8217;s bureaucrats are competing with the bovines to see who can produce the most &#8230; waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;so go aslyums masquerading as state governments throughout the nation. Despite the fact that the Golden State is staring a $20 billion budget deficit in the face (and facing the prospect of cutting off much of the revenue they&#8217;ll need to get out of the hole thanks to a Byzantine global warming law), policy entreprenuership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[647,299,562,205],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-california","tag-economics","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}