{"id":4235,"date":"2011-09-18T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/when-i-hear-ponzi-i-assume-the-speaker-is-an-idiot\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:29:41","slug":"when-i-hear-ponzi-i-assume-the-speaker-is-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/when-i-hear-ponzi-i-assume-the-speaker-is-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"When I hear &ldquo;Ponzi&rdquo; I assume the speaker is an idiot &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe first modern social insurance program began in Germany in 1889 and has been in<font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\"> continuous operation for more than 100 years<\/font>. The American Social Security system has been <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">in continuous successful operation since 1935<\/font>. Charles Ponzi\u2019s scheme lasted barely 200 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/history\/ponzi.htm\">Social Security<\/a> [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmexiken.com\/\">NewMexiKen<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Krauthammer wrote a column about the SSA Ponzi scheme. In the last paragraph, he concluded it was morally necessary and good. That\u2019s the paragraph no conservative will quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first modern social insurance program began in Germany in 1889 and has been in continuous operation for more than 100 years. The American Social Security system has been in continuous successful operation since 1935. Charles Ponzi\u2019s scheme lasted barely 200 days.\u201d Social Security [via NewMexiKen] Yesterday, Krauthammer wrote a column about the SSA Ponzi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/when-i-hear-ponzi-i-assume-the-speaker-is-an-idiot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When I hear &ldquo;Ponzi&rdquo; I assume the speaker is an idiot &hellip;<\/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":[10],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","tag-newmexiken-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","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=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}