{"id":343440,"date":"2026-06-02T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343440\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:31:18","slug":"san-jose-news-politics-business-at-san-jose-spotlight-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343440\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose News, Politics &#038; Business at San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s budget season in Santa Clara County, and once again the powers that be are ringing the familiar bells of control and fear. San Jose is facing a deficit. Are you surprised? I\u2019m not. Here\u2019s the playbook: Elected officials keep the public locked in a scarcity mindset of \u201cnever having enough\u201d to distract from their own lack of due diligence with public funds. When the spotlight is fixed on what we don\u2019t have, we can\u2019t see how they\u2019re spending what we do have. It is a calculated strategy to lower our expectations while mismanaging collective resources. San Jose\u2019s estimated budget&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s budget season in Santa Clara County, and once again the powers that be are ringing the familiar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-343440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}