{"id":6086,"date":"2012-04-18T06:07:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2012-04-18T06:50:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:50:48","slug":"where-the-money-has-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6086","title":{"rendered":"Where the Money Has Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the 2010 census of the 15 richest counties in America, ten<\/strong> are in the Washington DC area.\u00a0 The money is flowing toward where favors can be bought.\u00a0 Ten years ago only five of the richest fifteen were in the DC area.\u00a0 This data point is further evidence that we are suffering from the mercantilism that Hernando De Soto warned about in his 1989 book The Other Path<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 If you have to have permission to do things, creativity will be stymied and bureaucracy will grow. \u00a0 The first objective of any bureaucracy is to feed itself, well.<\/p>\n

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The Tenth Amendment<\/strong><\/a> was written to keep this from happening.\u00a0 It was gutted, by misapplication of the commerce clause, during the depression and the federal government has been growing exponentially ever since.\u00a0 It’s time to right size the federal government.\u00a0 Send education, healthcare and welfare back to the states where they belong.\u00a0 Stop all federal grants of money for mandates.<\/p>\n

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The second paragraph above was just a rant.\u00a0 My advise to young people: move to the DC area.\u00a0 It is where the money is and I can’t see it changing very fast.\u00a0 Remember you don’t make the weather.\u00a0 Adapt and be happy.<\/p>\n

The text of the tenth amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the 2010 census of the 15 richest counties in America, ten are in the Washington DC area.\u00a0 The money is flowing toward where favors can be bought.\u00a0 Ten years ago only five of the richest fifteen were in the DC area.\u00a0 This data point is further evidence that we are suffering from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[71,47,311],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-economics","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1Aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}