{"id":7431,"date":"2014-03-12T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T13:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7431"},"modified":"2014-03-12T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T13:54:40","slug":"cutting_down_on_jaywalking_to_rein_in_pension_costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/cutting_down_on_jaywalking_to_rein_in_pension_costs.html","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Down On Jaywalking To Rein In Pension Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/city-hall\/2014\/03\/8541812\/de-blasios-budget-savings-idea-proactive-governing\">Or maybe like using preventive medicine to treat birth defects<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bill de Blasio says that a &#8220;proactive&#8221; approach to governing will help solve the city&#8217;s structural budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think a lot of the proactive strategies to save money in the long run,&#8221; he said in response to a reporter&#8217;s question about his plans to tackle future budget gaps. &#8220;Keeping people out of our jails saves money. We can help to make people who might not have been law-abiding citizens into law-abiding citizens. That also saves money. We can keep folks who would have been homeless from going into our shelter system. That saves money.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe like using preventive medicine to treat birth defects: Mayor Bill de Blasio says that a &#8220;proactive&#8221; approach to governing will help solve the city&#8217;s structural budget deficit. &#8220;We think a lot of the proactive strategies to save money in the long run,&#8221; he said in response to a reporter&#8217;s question about his plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}