{"id":23590,"date":"2017-01-07T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23590"},"modified":"2017-01-07T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T18:04:45","slug":"saviors-believe-that-they-are-better-than-the-people-they-are-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/01\/07\/saviors-believe-that-they-are-better-than-the-people-they-are-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Saviors&#8221; Believe That They Are Better Than the People They Are &#8220;Saving&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truth-Out<\/em>, that purveyor of fake fake news (meaning actual news), has the wonderful article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/38989-saviors-believe-that-they-are-better-than-the-people-they-are-saving\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Saviors&#8221; Believe That They Are Better Than the People They Are &#8220;Saving&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/38989-saviors-believe-that-they-are-better-than-the-people-they-are-saving\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/images\/images_2017_01\/2017_0105charity.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, like many charitable funds set up through corporate profits, consists of money &#8220;twice-stolen,&#8221; according to author Jordan Flaherty. Pictured here is Bill Gates. (Photo: Gabriella Demczuk \/ The New York Times)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As commendable as charity from billionaires might be, I often wonder if people they are &#8220;helping&#8221; might have been better off if the helpers hadn&#8217;t sucked their billions out of the economy first before returning some of it to the less fortunate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth-Out, that purveyor of fake fake news (meaning actual news), has the wonderful article &#8220;Saviors&#8221; Believe That They Are Better Than the People They Are &#8220;Saving&#8221; As commendable as charity from billionaires might be, I often wonder if people they are &#8220;helping&#8221; might have been better off if the helpers hadn&#8217;t sucked their billions out [&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":["post-23590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23590","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=23590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23592,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23590\/revisions\/23592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}