{"id":23547,"date":"2016-12-31T20:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23547"},"modified":"2016-12-31T20:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:45:15","slug":"two-simple-suggestions-for-george-soros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/12\/31\/two-simple-suggestions-for-george-soros\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Simple Suggestions for George Soros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/12\/two-simple-suggestions-for-george-soros.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">Two Simple Suggestions for George Soros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSoros is not my least favorite billionaire \u2014 he does not, to my knowlege, own a super-yacht (Financial Times, \u201cSuperyachts magnify billionaires\u2019 worst traits\u201d) \u2014 and he\u2019s funded the Institute for New Economic Thinking, which is certainly a worthier cause than, say, the economics department of Florida State University. So today is my day to be nice! Rather than go through Soros\u2019s essay in detail, I\u2019m going to make two very very simple suggestions:<\/p>\n<p>    1. Soros Should Simply Stop Funding Democrats<br \/>\n    2. Soros Should Simply Stop Funding Neoliberal Projects\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would certainly agree that Soros is not my least favorite billionaire.  In fact I have read some  of his writings, and I like them.  This article quotes some that I had not read that are also reasonably likeable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<h3>\n<p>I think philanthropy even on the Nineteenth Century Robber Baron model \u2014 Carnegie Libraries, the Frick Museum, or genuine scholarship[1] \u2014 would be preferable to continuing to fund Democrats, or neoliberal projects generally. Soros should consider those alternatives. Short neoliberalism[2].<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with the idea of not funding the Democratic Party anymore.  There are other suggestions and insights in the article that I like alot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Two Simple Suggestions for George Soros. Soros is not my least favorite billionaire \u2014 he does not, to my knowlege, own a super-yacht (Financial Times, \u201cSuperyachts magnify billionaires\u2019 worst traits\u201d) \u2014 and he\u2019s funded the Institute for New Economic Thinking, which is certainly a worthier cause than, say, the economics [&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-23547","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\/23547","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=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23548,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions\/23548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}