{"id":2787,"date":"2009-08-04T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/this-weeks-wtf-17\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T19:21:00","slug":"this-weeks-wtf-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/this-weeks-wtf-17\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&rsquo;s WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><b>Socialist Makeover Complete <\/b>      <br \/>IF \u201cOBAMACARE\u201d becomes law, we will have to change the name of our once great nation to the Union of Socialist States of America (USSA).       <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Our metamorphosis from a capitalist nation to a socialist one didn&#8217;t happen overnight. It began with FDR&#8217;s New Deal. It grew with LBJ&#8217;s Great Society, which gave us Welfare.       <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; President Obama hastened the transformation at warp speed with government ownership of banks and automakers. Now Obama wants to nationalize health care, 14 percent of the economy. &#8230;       <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The problem is the mindset of liberals. They never saw a problem that couldn&#8217;t be solved with a new government program. &#8230; Winston Churchill summed it up best: \u201cThe inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.\u201d      <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; If the voters don&#8217;t wake up in time for the next election, welcome to the USSA.       <br \/>LEROY CHAVEZ <i>Albuquerque <\/i><b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fear and ignorance are contagious, Leroy. You\u2019re spreading both like mad. peace, mjh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist Makeover Complete IF \u201cOBAMACARE\u201d becomes law, we will have to change the name of our once great nation to the Union of Socialist States of America (USSA). &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Our metamorphosis from a capitalist nation to a socialist one didn&#8217;t happen overnight. It began with FDR&#8217;s New Deal. It grew with LBJ&#8217;s Great Society, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/this-weeks-wtf-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Week&rsquo;s WTF?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","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=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}