{"id":4732,"date":"2020-04-24T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2020-04-24T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:45:47","slug":"republican-plans-for-smaller-government-hit-a-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/republican-plans-for-smaller-government-hit-a-snag\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Plans for Smaller Government Hit a Snag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MONTPELIER &#8211; State and National Republican leaders have decided to &#8220;temporarily put on hold,&#8221; plans to shrink the size of government. VT State Republican chair , Deb Billadeau spoke to reporters on a conference call recently while she was on hold, through another line, trying to get through to the unemployment benefits hotline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe still want smaller government\u201d she emphasized \u201cbut that may have to wait until next month, or even next year.\u201d She reminded reporters,  \u201cThere&#8217;s never been a better time to start a business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith President Trump&#8217;s leadership,\u201d she shared, \u201cthe price of gas is down, airline tickets are great bargains and the President&#8217;s vast experience with bankruptcy will provide many Americans with sound advice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republican head of the Trump campaign in Vermont reminded reporters that bankruptcies are this president&#8217;s forte, and even a problem like the current State Colleges situation is something he has experience in.<br>\u201cA few calls to Bialystok, and those properties will be 5 star hotels by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican plans for a fundraiser featuring Grover Norquist were also on hold. He of the \u201cwe want to shrink government down to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub,\u201d has been busy starting a new business reselling Protective medical gear to American hospitals through business contacts in mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBusiness couldn\u2019t be better, so these political pep rallies will have to wait,\u201d Norquist reported from his Singapore branch office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MONTPELIER &#8211; State and National Republican leaders have decided to &#8220;temporarily put on hold,&#8221; plans to shrink the size of government. VT State Republican chair <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/republican-plans-for-smaller-government-hit-a-snag\/\" title=\"Republican Plans for Smaller Government Hit a Snag\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"coauthors":[91],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montpelier","tag-montpelier"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TWFI-2020_04_24.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-1ek","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}