{"id":3111,"date":"2007-11-07T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:36:27","slug":"wheres-congress-spending-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wheres-congress-spending-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Congress spending your money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Google Earth layer keeps tabs on political spending by pinpointing where and for what projects U.S. government officials are budgeting funds for across the country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of Congress know where the money is going: now citizens can, too. The Sunlight Foundation today released a Google Earth application that plots the locations for almost 1,500 earmarks in the House Defense Appropriations bill. This graphic illustration of defense earmarks gives anyone with an Internet connection a bird&#8217;s eye view of exactly where Congress is directing federal spending\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the ability to investigate whether the earmarks address pressing needs, favor political contributors or are simply pure pork.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/defensespending-thumb.jpg' title='defensespending-thumb.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/defensespending-thumb.jpg' alt='defensespending-thumb.jpg' width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the free Google Earth layer from <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightfoundation.com\/node\/4172\">The Sunlight Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/181157288\/map-where-congress-budgets-your-taxes-319889.php\">lifehacker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Google Earth layer keeps tabs on political spending by pinpointing where and for what projects U.S. government officials are budgeting funds for across the country: Members of Congress know where the money is going: now citizens can, too. The Sunlight Foundation today released a Google Earth application that plots the locations for almost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wheres-congress-spending-your-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where&#8217;s Congress spending your money<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[339,338,138],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-techno","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-google-earth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}