{"id":9938,"date":"2015-06-08T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2015-06-08T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:49:52","slug":"corporate-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Europe the EU has high subsidies for rapeseed.\u00a0 So farmers grow a lot of it.\u00a0 Rapeseed is used to make canola oil.\u00a0 There is a massive surplus of canola oil in Europe.\u00a0 But the fields are beautiful in the spring.<\/p>\n

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In the USA we could feel superior to the Europeans about this waste of the taxpayers money except that we have ethanol, a fuel made from corn and tax dollars.\u00a0 Governments everywhere have the urge to help their friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Europe the EU has high subsidies for rapeseed.\u00a0 So farmers grow a lot of it.\u00a0 Rapeseed is used to make canola oil.\u00a0 There is a massive surplus of canola oil in Europe.\u00a0 But the fields are beautiful in the spring. In the USA we could feel superior to the Europeans about this waste of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2Ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","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=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}