{"id":2091,"date":"2002-06-04T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2002-06-04T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2002-06-04T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2002-06-04T15:57:11","slug":"political-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/06\/04\/political-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><tt>Last year, the Bush administration triggered international outrage when it announced the United States would not participate in the Kyoto Treaty, a UN-backed attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions by industrial countries.  At the time, President George W. Bush said the Kyoto Treaty ... would be too costly.<\/tt><\/p>\n<p align='right'><a href='http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/20020603\/hl_nm\/environment_warming_1'>US Report Blames Humans for Global Warming<\/a><br \/>Reuters, June 3<\/p>\n<p><tt>Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, a Republican, said Monday he would attach language to an emergency appropriations bill pending in the Senate to help farmers who are suffering through the fifth year of a drought. \"Having worked with the (Bush) administration, I am confident this amendment has legs to stand on,\" Burns said in a statement ... Steve Pringle, legislative director for the Texas Farm Bureau, said farmers were hesitant to ask Washington for more money considering the $51.7 billion farm law just passed a month ago. \"It's difficult to go back to Congress and ask for additional funding at this time,\" Pringle said. \"But I know producers are concerned about the existing conditions and whether the farm bill just passed will address these concerns.<\/tt><\/p>\n<p align='right'><a href='http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/newswire\/2002\/06\/03\/rtr620849.html'>Drought-stricken US farmers seek more federal aid<\/a><br \/>Forbes, June 3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You do the math.  Somebody ought to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Bush administration triggered international outrage when it announced the United States would not participate in the Kyoto Treaty, a UN-backed attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions by industrial countries. At the time, President George W. Bush said the Kyoto Treaty &#8230; would be too costly. US Report Blames Humans for Global WarmingReuters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}