{"id":10097,"date":"2013-02-27T23:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T23:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedblogger.com\/?guid=5065341932072c9eafea98fa0192a8b2"},"modified":"2013-02-27T23:20:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T23:20:49","slug":"the-silliest-sequester-pumping-the-brakes-on-green-building-programs-that-save-taxpayer-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-silliest-sequester-pumping-the-brakes-on-green-building-programs-that-save-taxpayer-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silliest Sequester: Pumping the Brakes on Green Building Programs that Save Taxpayer Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Authored by:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/new.usgbc.org\/people\/lane-burt\/0010155981\">Lane Burt<\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Feature image:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"308\" title=\"Photo credit: iStockphoto\" alt=\"Photo credit: iStockphoto\" src=\"http:\/\/new.usgbc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/iStock_000009844237Small.jpg?1362006956\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not an economist, but if I am trying to save money, I don&rsquo;t stop depositing money into my savings account.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not a CEO, but if I had a division of a business that was turning a profit with every dollar invested, I would probably look at ways to increase investment, not reduce it.<\/p>\n<p>But the coming sequester will make arbitrary across-the-board cuts in government program budgets, including extremely successful programs that pay for themselves in energy efficiency and green building. That&rsquo;s not a very effective way to reduce government spending.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.usgbc.org\/articles\/silliest-sequester-pumping-brakes-green-building-programs-save-taxpayer-dollars\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[5180,8977,128,8961,8978,8979],"class_list":["post-10097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leed-news","tag-2c-i","tag-economist","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-policy-and-advocacy","tag-sequester","tag-taxpayer-dollars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}