{"id":1589,"date":"2005-09-28T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/09\/28\/cruises_for_eva.html"},"modified":"2005-09-28T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:53:14","slug":"cruises_for_eva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/09\/28\/cruises_for_eva.html","title":{"rendered":"cruises for evacuees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsblog.org\/voting-rights-democracy-2001-sweetheart-deal-for-carnival-cruise-lines.html\">&#8220;Sweetheart Deal&#8221; for Carnival Cruise Lines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the ships were at capacity, with 7,116 evacuees, for six months, the price per evacuee would total $1,275 a week, according to calculations by aides to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). A seven-day western Caribbean cruise out of Galveston can be had for $599 a person &#8212; and that would include entertainment and the cost of actually making the ship move.  &#8220;When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>::grumble::grumble::grumble:: I so don&#8217;t understand how this administration could keep fucking up so badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sweetheart Deal&#8221; for Carnival Cruise Lines: If the ships were at capacity, with 7,116 evacuees, for six months, the price per evacuee would total $1,275 a week, according to calculations by aides to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). A seven-day western Caribbean cruise out of Galveston can be had for $599 a person &#8212; and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}