{"id":9504,"date":"2012-07-31T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/31\/a-letter-to-young-voters\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:56:32","slug":"a-letter-to-young-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/31\/a-letter-to-young-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to Young Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would quibble with parts of this piece<\/a>  by Dennis Prager, but it is worth reading.   Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Young people believe that when the government gives more money and benefits to more people it helps them. This is na\u00efve. As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. Every study shows that people who earn money are far happier than people who win many millions of dollars in a lottery. Happiness is earned, not given. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another: Young people are far more likely to believe that world peace is achieved when nations lay down their arms and talk through their differences. But this has never been the case. Of course, good nations stay peaceful when they talk to other good nations. Bad nations \u2014 that is, nations ruled by evil men \u2014 are never dissuaded from making war by talk. They are dissuaded only by good nations having more arms than they do. That is why the Marine Corps has done so much more for world peace than the Peace Corps.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to vote Democrat, don\u2019t do so because that is the party that cares more for the poor and the hungry. We older conservatives (and young ones, too) care just as much for the poor. But after living a life of seeing the na\u00efve only make things worse for the poor, we are no longer seduced by caring rhetoric. We are seduced by policies based on the awesome American value of individual initiative combined with liberty to create and retain wealth. It\u2019s now called \u201cconservatism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And, finally, you should know this: The \u201cidealists\u201d that many of you find appealing are the ones leaving you with a national debt that will render it very difficult for you to attain the material quality of life that these people have had.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Will millenials be persuaded?  Not likely<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would quibble with parts of this piece  by Dennis Prager, but it is worth reading.   Excerpt: Young people believe that when the government gives more money and benefits to more people it helps them. This is na\u00efve. As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to … Continue reading “A Letter to Young Voters”<\/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":[56,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504","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=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}