{"id":23048,"date":"2016-08-29T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23048"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:36:52","slug":"applying-oligarchic-standards-to-government-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/08\/29\/applying-oligarchic-standards-to-government-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Oligarchic Standards To Government Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oligarchs are always touting how well the economy is doing by, for instance, talking about the run-up in the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>There is a government program to which we can apply the same logic and standards.  Look at the government run lotteries.  Have you read about all the people who have won $100s of millions of dollars with a single ticket.  The government doesn&#8217;t even incur any debt nor take any taxes for this miracle to happen. These lotteries even lower the deficit. The government puts out a product at a very cheap price, and the buyers come running of their own free choice.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t hear much in the corporate press about any down side to this wonderful government program.  It must be the greatest thing since sliced bread.<\/p>\n<p>I will let you suggest where I should have put the <sarcasm> flags.  You do realize that there was sarcasm here, don&#8217;t you?<\/sarcasm><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oligarchs are always touting how well the economy is doing by, for instance, talking about the run-up in the stock market. There is a government program to which we can apply the same logic and standards. Look at the government run lotteries. Have you read about all the people who have won $100s of [&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-23048","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\/23048","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=23048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23050,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23048\/revisions\/23050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}