{"id":4867,"date":"2010-10-20T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2019-07-03T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:35:08","slug":"progressives-go-on-offense-for-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/20\/progressives-go-on-offense-for-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressives go &#8220;on offense&#8221; for Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0d5zL5T8Evs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0d5zL5T8Evs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Is this the way progressives should have been campaigning?<\/p>\n<p>When Rand Paul says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and should be privatized, does that mean that he thinks the private sector does a better job at Ponzi schemes than the government?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the way progressives should have been campaigning? When Rand Paul says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and should be privatized, does that mean that he thinks the private sector does a better job at Ponzi schemes than the government?<\/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":[35],"class_list":{"0":"post-4867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"tag-social-security","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27705,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/27705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}