{"id":17464,"date":"2014-06-14T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T17:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17464"},"modified":"2014-06-14T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T17:53:23","slug":"its-not-a-smaller-government-they-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/06\/14\/its-not-a-smaller-government-they-want\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not A Smaller Government They Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The right wing in this country keep saying they want a smaller government.\u00a0 Who could be against shrinking the size of institutions that are too big?<\/p>\n<p>What they really want to do is shrink the part of government that favors the 99% of us.\u00a0 They are surely in favor of the part of government that favors the 1% and is controlled by the 1%.<\/p>\n<p>As harmful as government that is too big is (whatever that means), private corporations that are too big are as harmful if not more harmful.\u00a0 The right wing representing the 1% doesn&#8217;t complain about excess corporate power.<\/p>\n<p>If corporate power were brought under control, we might be able to do with a little less government power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right wing in this country keep saying they want a smaller government.\u00a0 Who could be against shrinking the size of institutions that are too big? What they really want to do is shrink the part of government that favors the 99% of us.\u00a0 They are surely in favor of the part of government that [&hellip;]<\/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-17464","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\/17464","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=17464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17467,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17464\/revisions\/17467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}