{"id":1474,"date":"2009-05-25T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T15:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/a-crock\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T09:01:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T16:01:34","slug":"a-crock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-crock\/","title":{"rendered":"a crock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our old crock pot gave up the ghost after 20 years and we bought a new one.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still counting the improvements in crock pot technology that 20 years of free market competition yielded for less money than the original.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a slim oval design<\/li>\n<li>glass lid with vent holes<\/li>\n<li>ergonomic lid handle with a spoon carrier<\/li>\n<li>built-in silicon lid gasket<\/li>\n<li>transport clips for locking the lid down for trips to pot lucks<\/li>\n<li>removable spoon drip tray<\/li>\n<li>bracket for holding the hot lid which also spins around to provide a cord wrap structure<\/li>\n<li>easily cleanable aluminum housing<\/li>\n<li>lighter weight heating element<\/li>\n<li>flip up silicon handles for secure handling<\/li>\n<li>3 stage heating element<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No doubt these many improvements did not come from one source.\u00a0 They came about from multiple innovations by many companies competing to win customers in the free crock pot market.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how many of these innovations would not have occurred in a government-controlled crock pot market.\u00a0 Imagine how the absence of competition coupled with the presence of federal oversight and regulation would have cemented that 20 year-old crock pot design into our culture.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the medicare-subsidized and fda-regulated health care industry in America, or the new federally-managed American automobile industry.\u00a0 Consider driving a 50-year-old Chevy on the island of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Governments don&#8217;t adapt very well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not in their nature.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the left&#8217;s legislative agenda for America, which they seem unable to adequately describe in less than a thousand pages of federal spaghetti-legalize, is we&#8217;ll never know all of the wonderful human products, behaviors, solutions, and creativity that they preclude from coming into existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our old crock pot gave up the ghost after 20 years and we bought a new one.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still counting the improvements in crock pot technology that 20 years of free market competition yielded for less money than the original. a slim oval design glass lid with vent holes ergonomic lid handle with a spoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economics","7":"category-health-care","8":"category-planning","9":"category-politics","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}