{"id":10776,"date":"2011-04-11T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/big-government-on-the-brink\/"},"modified":"2011-04-11T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T12:23:53","slug":"big-government-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/big-government-on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Government on the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We are in deep trouble as Robert Samuelson ably documents in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/04\/11\/big_government_on_the_brink_109497.html\" target=\"_self\">this troubling piece<\/a>.&#0160; So what does <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Nero<\/span> Obama do?&#0160; He fiddles while Rome burns and its legions get mired in Libyan sand and other&#0160;sinkholes of the&#0160; benighted and backward.&#0160; Even if Obama the Irresponsible and every worthless Democrat were sent packing we&#39;d still be in deep trouble.&#0160; Meanwhile gold approaches $1500 an ounce.&#0160; &#39;Lead&#39; &#0160;ain&#39;t cheap these days either.&#0160; It is a bad sign when gold and &#39;lead&#39; appear to be wise investment choices.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Overextended abroad, collapsing within.&#0160; The bigger the government, the more to fight over.&#0160;&#0160; It&#39;s time for a return to good old American self-reliance. Make your plans and prepare for the worst.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in deep trouble as Robert Samuelson ably documents in this troubling piece.&#0160; So what does Nero Obama do?&#0160; He fiddles while Rome burns and its legions get mired in Libyan sand and other&#0160;sinkholes of the&#0160; benighted and backward.&#0160; Even if Obama the Irresponsible and every worthless Democrat were sent packing we&#39;d still be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/big-government-on-the-brink\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Government on the Brink&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}