{"id":16324,"date":"2022-01-08T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16324"},"modified":"2021-12-29T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:40:31","slug":"building-bad-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16324","title":{"rendered":"Building Bad Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw a video on TikTok of a Republican congressman claiming that the Build Back Better legislation as proposed by the Congress included money to pay the salaries of reporters. I thought it couldn&#8217;t be true so I did some research. Sure enough the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/local-media-organizations-funding-build-back-better-act-finances-2021-11\">bill includes a provision to give $1.6 Billion<\/a> to local media outlets to pay staff. As the congressman said &#8220;What could possibly go wrong.&#8221; The media would become even more supportive of the &#8220;do something about everything&#8221; mentality of the government bureaucracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/820E41F8-5B40-4321-8136-4CAA1F5B5667.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16325\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=16325\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/820E41F8-5B40-4321-8136-4CAA1F5B5667.jpeg?fit=637%2C477&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"637,477\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"820E41F8-5B40-4321-8136-4CAA1F5B5667\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/820E41F8-5B40-4321-8136-4CAA1F5B5667.jpeg?fit=637%2C477&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/820E41F8-5B40-4321-8136-4CAA1F5B5667.jpeg?resize=541%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16325\" width=\"541\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/820E41F8-5B40-4321-8136-4CAA1F5B5667.jpeg?w=637&amp;ssl=1 637w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/820E41F8-5B40-4321-8136-4CAA1F5B5667.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On top of being a probable violation of the second amendment it reeks of the kind of elitist &#8220;help ourselves and hang the nation&#8221; attitude that a part of the Democrat party has come to represent. It doesn&#8217;t look like Build Back Better is going anywhere but this section should definitely be stricken from successor legislation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">King George IV put a tax on paper in the colonies that so angered Benjamin Franklin and other printers that they became vocal advocates of the revolution that founded our country. This is the inverse of that sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the proverb says: &#8220;He who pays the piper calls the tune.&#8221; Is this what we want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a video on TikTok of a Republican congressman claiming that the Build Back Better legislation as proposed by the Congress included money to pay the salaries of reporters. I thought it couldn&#8217;t be true so I did some research. 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