{"id":34578,"date":"2011-02-17T21:06:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T02:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=34578"},"modified":"2011-02-17T23:24:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T04:24:55","slug":"pharaohs-not-just-for-egypt-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/pharaohs-not-just-for-egypt-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharaohs: Not just for Egypt anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Brh4FEuBSmw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThirty thousand people are marching the streets of Madison, Wisconsin because Scott Walker, the state&#8217;s Republican governor, wants to use his claim of a state budget shortfall of $137 million\u00a0as rationale to strip out state employee unions&#8217; ability to negotiate wages, pensions and benefits. This legislation would effectively\u00a0force state workers to pay more into their pensions and health care, resulting in a loss\u00a0on average $1,000 per month, or $12,000 annually in pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Exempt from this\u00a0proposal\u00a0are fire, police and other safety workers, but these workers have all joined forces in solidarity against the governor in\u00a0support of their brethren state employees.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/edt3rjqghg4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The democrats from the Wisconsin State Assembly have left the state <em>en masse<\/em>, preventing the legislature from passing the governor&#8217;s proposed legislation by denying him a quorum. The state police have been called off their pursuit of the escaped legislators. At last check, two Republicans from the Wisconsin State Assembly have begun to waiver on their all-out approval of the governor&#8217;s proposal. It is estimated that more than double today&#8217;s crowd count are anticipated to come to the capitol to protest the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Governor believes that Pharaohs are not just for Egypt. But then again, we know what happened to the last one in Cairo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty thousand people are marching the streets of Madison, Wisconsin because Scott Walker, the state&#8217;s Republican governor, wants to use his claim of a state budget shortfall of $137 million\u00a0as rationale to strip out state employee unions&#8217; ability to negotiate wages, pensions and benefits. This legislation would effectively\u00a0force state workers to pay more into their &#8230; <a title=\"Pharaohs: Not just for Egypt anymore\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/pharaohs-not-just-for-egypt-anymore\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pharaohs: Not just for Egypt anymore\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}