{"id":1522,"date":"2005-01-22T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/deep-thoughts-from-the-right\/"},"modified":"2005-01-22T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T21:50:18","slug":"deep-thoughts-from-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/deep-thoughts-from-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thoughts from the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Social Security Panel Tells Truth [Free Republic]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/forum\/a3b6ffd263640.htm\">Social Security Panel Tells Truth [Free Republic]<\/a> By Stephen Moore<\/p>\n<p>Social Security is the last vestige of the New Deal era of <b>creeping socialism<\/b> that the left wants to preserve and expand upon rather than modernize.<\/p>\n<p>I have always believed that Social Security is <b>the soft underbelly of the welfare state<\/b>. If Social Security can be made private, the rest of the architecture of the income redistributionist ideology of the left will soon come crumbling down behind it. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If workers start demanding that the chains of Social Security be unshackled, soon they might demand financial independence in so many other areas of their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Panel Tells Truth [Free Republic] By Stephen Moore Social Security is the last vestige of the New Deal era of creeping socialism that the left wants to preserve and expand upon rather than modernize. I have always believed that Social Security is the soft underbelly of the welfare state. If Social Security can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/deep-thoughts-from-the-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deep Thoughts from the Right<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}