{"id":2446048,"date":"2019-07-05T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/go-for-the-money\/"},"modified":"2019-07-08T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:49:19","slug":"go-for-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/go-for-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Go for the money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When I tell people I\u2019m divesting my portfolio from fossil fuel companies and funds that invest in private prisons, they often admonish, \u201cDon\u2019t mix politics with money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWhat!?\u201d I reply, \u201cPolitics and money go hand in glove.\u201d Politics isn\u2019t about governance anymore. It\u2019s about fattening the pockets of your campaign donors. This country is run by capitalists and the only way to sway them is to hurt them in the wallet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I don\u2019t like to do it. I\u2019m a bit like the nobility of the middle ages who thought handling money was venal and base, but it\u2019s a means toward an end. If I can have any influence on stopping the ruinous use of fossil fuels and the horrid abuse of asylum-seekers who\u2019ve committed no crime in private prisons, I\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/go-for-the-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I tell people I\u2019m divesting my portfolio from fossil fuel companies and funds that invest in private prisons, they often admonish, \u201cDon\u2019t mix politics with money.\u201d \u201cWhat!?\u201d I reply, \u201cPolitics and money go hand in glove.\u201d Politics isn\u2019t about governance anymore. It\u2019s about fattening the pockets of your campaign donors. This country is run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 22:57:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446093,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446048\/revisions\/2446093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}