{"id":494,"date":"2006-09-01T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/legalised-corruption-part-1\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T10:38:40","slug":"legalised-corruption-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/legalised-corruption-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalised Corruption: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well done Thames Water! A rise in profits to <\/p>\n

£346,500,000<\/a><\/h3>\n

whilst pouring <\/p>\n

894,000,000 litres<\/h3>\n

of water into the ground through leaky pipes every year. This calls for a celebration, and so they’ve decided to reward their work force by <\/p>\n

sacking 25%<\/a><\/h3>\n

of them.<\/p>\n

Normally, if you take public money and put it in your pocket, that’s called corruption. However, by simply calling it “privatisiation” and writing the cash you’ve stolen in an account ledger, not only are you perfectly legal but admired by all – especially by the little bastards in the government who want a slice of the cake when they “retire” from politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well done Thames Water! A rise in profits to £346,500,000 whilst pouring 894,000,000 litres of water into the ground through leaky pipes every year. This calls for a celebration, and so they’ve decided to reward their work force by sacking 25% of them. Normally, if you take public money and put it in your pocket, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}