{"id":8601,"date":"2013-07-26T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/26\/could-the-usa-go-the-way-of-detroit\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:02:05","slug":"could-the-usa-go-the-way-of-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/26\/could-the-usa-go-the-way-of-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the USA Go the Way of Detroit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why not, given the incorrigible stupidity of reactionary liberals?  Krauthammer:<\/span><\/p>\n

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But Detroit is an object lesson not just for other cities. Not even the almighty federal government is immune to Stein\u2019s Law. Reactionary liberalism simply cannot countenance serious reform of the iconic social welfare programs of the 20th century. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pledged to their inviolability. President Obama will occasionally admit that, for example, Medicare cannot go on as is<\/a>, but then reverts to crude demagoguery<\/a> when Republicans propose a structural reform, such as premium support for Medicare or something as obvious as raising the retirement age to match increasing longevity.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the contrary. Obama added one enormous new entitlement (Obamacare) and, in his last State of the Union address<\/a>, proposed yet another (universal preschool).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Why not, given the incorrigible stupidity of reactionary liberals?  Krauthammer: But Detroit is an object lesson not just for other cities. Not even the almighty federal government is immune to Stein\u2019s Law. Reactionary liberalism simply cannot countenance serious reform of the iconic social welfare programs of the 20th century. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are … Continue reading “Could the USA Go the Way of Detroit?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","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=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}