{"id":24189,"date":"2017-04-06T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24189"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:28:53","slug":"why-do-we-have-a-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/04\/06\/why-do-we-have-a-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Have A Government?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need to remember the short, eloquent explanation of why we have a government.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.launchknowledge.com\/constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Preamble.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1123\" height=\"402\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Preamble.png 1123w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Preamble-150x54.png 150w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Preamble-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Preamble-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Preamble-1024x367.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1123px) 100vw, 1123px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Whenever a member of Congress or a President proposes a law to enact, check it against this brief explanation of why we have a union for a country.<\/p>\n<p>I think that just asking if it &#8220;promotes the general welfare&#8221; is the strongest filter their can be.  For instance, do tax cuts for billionaires promote the general welfare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to remember the short, eloquent explanation of why we have a government. Whenever a member of Congress or a President proposes a law to enact, check it against this brief explanation of why we have a union for a country. I think that just asking if it &#8220;promotes the general welfare&#8221; is the [&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-24189","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\/24189","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=24189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28634,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions\/28634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}