{"id":1107,"date":"2009-08-19T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2009-08-19T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:10:41","slug":"how_well_does_the_government_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"How Well Does The Government Run Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08192009\/news\/regionalnews\/ny_dealers_pull_out_of_cash_for_clunker__185367.htm\">New York Post<\/a> posted an article today about New York State automobile dealers who have pulled out of the &#8216;Cash for Clunkers&#8217; program because of delays in getting paid by the government.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;The president of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association says about half its 425 members have stopped offering rebates from the program because they can no longer afford them.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The dealers are asked to pay the rebates out of pocket and are supposed to be reimbursed by the government.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the automobile dealers in this group have only been reimbursed for about 2 per cent of the rebates that they have given.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Do we trust these people with our healthcare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Post posted an article today about New York State automobile dealers who have pulled out of the &#8216;Cash for Clunkers&#8217; program because of delays in getting paid by the government.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;The president of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}