{"id":2434,"date":"2020-11-18T23:20:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2020-11-18T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:20:51","slug":"small-town-belt-tightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2434","title":{"rendered":"small town belt tightening&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/budget.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/budget.png 775w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/budget-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/budget-768x496.png 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/budget-464x300.png 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other night, I attended a <strong>Public Hearing<\/strong> on a new budget for fiscal 2021 for a small town in the area.  The overall amount the village has to work with is <strong>$6.9 million<\/strong>.  (There&#8217;s a population of about 4,000 people.)  The village fiscal officer did a power point presentation, explaining the various budget categories.  She said for the past two months she has been meeting with village department heads to go over projected expenditures with a fine tooth comb, so to speak, to cut what can be cut and stretch what can be stretched.  I&#8217;ve gotten to know her over the last year through my reporting, and she, indeed, <em>has an eye for detail and is tremendously prudent<\/em>.  What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s a good bet the village won&#8217;t spend more than it has&#8230;  Now, we&#8217;re currently over $20 trillion with the National Debt.  One, most likely, that our kids are going to inherit.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be refreshing to have one of these small town, prudent fiscal officers in D.C. going over the budget?  I think so.  And our administration would bring one in.  For more on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/taxes\">campaign&#8217;s take on this&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, I attended a Public Hearing on a new budget for fiscal 2021 for a small town in the area. The overall amount the village has to work with is $6.9 million. (There&#8217;s a population of about 4,000 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2434\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}