{"id":27415,"date":"2011-07-23T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/notable_and_quotable_1_23_july_2011\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T18:00:49","slug":"notable_and_quotable_1_23_july_2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27415","title":{"rendered":"Notable and Quotable (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This medicine is very hard for Americans to swallow, but the truth is, we can\u2019t have it both ways. We want an arms-length relationship with the government in good times. In bad times, the cries go out to \u201cdo something,\u201d\u009d even if it\u2019s pay us to do nothing. We want a free-market economy during expansions, a nanny state in periods of recession. Privatized profits during the boom, socialized losses during the bust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Caroline Baum, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-21\/ailing-u-s-economy-seeks-jobs-doc-with-magic-rx-caroline-baum.html\">Bloomberg News piece this week<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This medicine is very hard for Americans to swallow, but the truth is, we can\u2019t have it both ways. We want an arms-length relationship with the government in good times. In bad times, the cries go out to \u201cdo something,\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27415\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,670,149,168,617,600,597,675,616,151,667,618,673,599,587,585,596,669,584,672,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-stock-market","category-taxes","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}