{"id":6451,"date":"2008-01-09T10:51:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewmrealestate.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/house-of-cards-built-on-voodoo-economics-cheats-the-needy\/"},"modified":"2019-04-23T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:57:41","slug":"house-of-cards-built-on-voodoo-economics-cheats-the-needy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewmrealestate.com\/blog\/house-of-cards-built-on-voodoo-economics-cheats-the-needy\/","title":{"rendered":"House of cards built on voodoo economics cheats the needy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week of January 11, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Cash-strapped local governments have miraculously found nearly $2 billion to finance a bundle of pet projects, the first of which, a baseball stadium, comes up for a county vote this week.<\/p>\n<p>Plans like a Port of Miami tunnel that were impossible to fund are suddenly to roll in money \u2014 and new projects are being shoved onto the list on the back of this alleged windfall.<\/p>\n<p>Some are worthwhile, others boondoggles. But there&#8217;s plenty for all, we&#8217;re told, so why worry about which have merit and which will become future public burdens of the sort we&#8217;re all too familiar with?<\/p>\n<p>To read the remainder of this article, visit<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/news\/080111\/story-viewpoint.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/news\/080111\/story-viewpoint.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week of January 11, 2008 Cash-strapped local governments have miraculously found nearly $2 billion to finance a bundle of pet projects, the first of which, a baseball stadium, comes up for a county vote this week. Plans like a Port of Miami tunnel that were impossible to fund are suddenly to roll in money \u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewmrealestate.com\/blog\/house-of-cards-built-on-voodoo-economics-cheats-the-needy\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[11767],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>House of cards built on voodoo economics cheats the needy - BHHS EWM Realty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ewmrealestate.com\/blog\/house-of-cards-built-on-voodoo-economics-cheats-the-needy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"House of cards built on voodoo economics cheats the needy - BHHS EWM Realty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Week of January 11, 2008 Cash-strapped local governments have miraculously found nearly $2 billion to finance a bundle of pet projects, the first of which, a baseball stadium, comes up for a county vote this week. 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