{"id":9977,"date":"2012-02-03T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2012-02-03T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:13:54","slug":"romney-isnt-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/02\/03\/romney-isnt-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Isn\u2019t Concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The New York Times<\/em> article, <a title=\"The New York Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/ww.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/03\/opinion\/krugman-romney-isnt-concerned.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Romney Isn\u2019t Concerned<\/strong><\/a>, Paul Krugman attempts to explain Mitt Romney&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So Mr. Romney\u2019s position seems to be that we need not worry about the poor thanks to programs that he insists, falsely, don\u2019t actually help the needy, and which he intends, in any case, to destroy.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I believe Mr. Romney when he says he isn\u2019t concerned about the poor. What I don\u2019t believe is his assertion that he\u2019s equally unconcerned about the rich, who are \u201cdoing fine.\u201d After all, if that\u2019s what he really feels, why does he propose showering them with money?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if Romney and the Komen Foundation share the same public relations company.\u00a0 It is amazing what these two think they can use to explain themselves and get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to MardyS for posting the link to this article on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The New York Times article, Romney Isn\u2019t Concerned, Paul Krugman attempts to explain Mitt Romney&#8217;s words. So Mr. Romney\u2019s position seems to be that we need not worry about the poor thanks to programs that he insists, falsely, don\u2019t actually help the needy, and which he intends, in any case, to destroy. Still, I [&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-9977","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\/9977","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=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9979,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}