{"id":26065,"date":"2018-10-17T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26065"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:34:10","slug":"the-fascists-are-coming-for-your-social-security-and-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/10\/17\/the-fascists-are-coming-for-your-social-security-and-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Common Dreams <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2018\/10\/17\/fascists-are-coming-your-social-security-and-medicare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt that is just a hint of all the truths revealed in the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor thousands of years, economists and economic observers from Aristotle to Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty have told us that a \u201cmiddle class\u201d is not a normal byproduct of raw, unregulated capitalism\u2014what right-wing ideologues call \u201cthe free market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, unregulated markets\u2014particularly markets not regulated by significant taxation on predatory incomes\u2014invariably lead to the opposite of a healthy middle class: they produce extremes of inequality, which are as dangerous to democracy as cancer is to a living being.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When people ask why a country like the USA that creates its own money out of thin air has to collect taxes, remember the quote from above.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8230; markets not regulated by significant taxation on predatory incomes\u2014invariably lead to the opposite of a healthy middle class &#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Dreams has the article The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare. Here is an excerpt that is just a hint of all the truths revealed in the article. For thousands of years, economists and economic observers from Aristotle to Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty have told us that a \u201cmiddle class\u201d [&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-26065","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\/26065","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=26065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26066,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions\/26066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}