{"id":7934,"date":"2016-07-29T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2016-07-29T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:13:22","slug":"looking-out-for-1-and-that-aint-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/looking-out-for-1-and-that-aint-you\/","title":{"rendered":"looking out for #1 &#8211; and that ain&#8217;t you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton thinks that distributing money financed by government debt, and redistributing tax money to entitlement beneficiaries and government spending targets, are preferable to allowing citizens to choose how best to spend their own money, and avoiding government debt altogether.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because in the citizen-self-directed model, Clinton is superfluous.<\/p>\n<p>In the name of doing good, Clinton and the Left are all about creating roles for themselves. To be sure, they probably want <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">to do good as well, but if they weren\u2019t getting rich and powerful in the deal, they\u2019d do something else.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Interestingly, the only roles they seem to know how to create are ones that involve dictating other people\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to have no idea about how to create and run a sustainable market enterprise that makes a net addition of value to the economy, provides paying jobs, and succeeds solely from the voluntary cooperation, without coercion, of all parties in the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>But they have no problem telling everyone else in the country how to live.<\/p>\n<p>In the land of the free and the home of the brave, why do so many people fall for the Left\u2019s confidence scheme? None of the Left\u2019s excuses for socialist mechanisms hold up under the slightest scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The tip off for me is how quickly the Left get upset and start to freak out when questioned about their methods. It tells me that on some level that they won\u2019t face, they fear how wrong they are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton thinks that distributing money financed by government debt, and redistributing tax money to entitlement beneficiaries and government spending targets, are preferable to allowing citizens to choose how best to spend their own money, and avoiding government debt altogether. That\u2019s because in the citizen-self-directed model, Clinton is superfluous. In the name of doing good, Clinton [&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":[327,212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hillary-clinton","7":"category-leftists","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","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=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7937,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/7937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}