{"id":14154,"date":"2013-08-21T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14154"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:57:45","slug":"makers-and-takers-theyre-projecting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/21\/makers-and-takers-theyre-projecting-again\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMakers and Takers:\u201d They\u2019re Projecting Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Economic Perspectives<\/em> has the post \u201cMakers and Takers:\u201d They\u2019re Projecting Again!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The post uses this video below as its launch point.<\/p>\n

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\nWoman: \u201cIt kills me every time i hear senators, especially republicans, talk about those takers. they\u2019re just taken. the takers. i paid taxes for over 30 years and i have a rare illness and now i\u2019m disabled. the state of arizona raised the eligibility for a program that was paying $100 a month for my medicaid to 3.4%. consequently, i was cut off. $100 a month, which meant (breaks down) i could no longer go to physical therapy. do it intentionally to cut as many people as they can for as long as they can from benefits that are desperately needed and it\u2019s just not right. we\u2019re the takers.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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This is a powerful video in itself, but you don’t get the full import of the headline until you read the post on New Economic Perspectives<\/em>. I think the following snippet makes the point.<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s the point the DC\/New York \u201cvillagers\u201d don\u2019t want to talk about very much. They\u2019ll credit people with not being likely to vote for people who label them \u201cmoochers,\u201d but they won\u2019t credit people with understanding that the real \u201ctakers\u201d are not themselves, but the very people who are projecting that insult onto them.<\/p>\n
Maybe that\u2019s because the villagers don\u2019t intend to talk about who the real takers are. But I think that people are smart enough to come to understand that anyway. And when they do, there will be hell to pay for those who guilt-tripped them in order to distract them from the reality of the real takers and their outrageous takings.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The point about who the real takers are is one that is the subject of many posts on my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Economic Perspectives has the post \u201cMakers and Takers:\u201d They\u2019re Projecting Again! The post uses this video below as its launch point. Woman: \u201cIt kills me every time i hear senators, especially republicans, talk about those takers. they\u2019re just taken. the takers. i paid taxes for over 30 years and i have a rare illness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14157,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions\/14157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}