{"id":9771,"date":"2012-04-15T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/15\/federalism-and-governmental-competition\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:08:13","slug":"federalism-and-governmental-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/15\/federalism-and-governmental-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalism and Governmental Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Conservatives understand that competition is good.&#0160; It breeds excellence.&#0160; And contrary to what some liberals think, competition that breeds excellence is <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/03\/cooperation-and-competition.html\" target=\"_self\">not opposed to cooperation<\/a> but presupposes it.&#0160; We need more competition, not less, and we need it at the level of government not just in the business world and in our private lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">How is governmental competition possible?&#0160; <em>Via<\/em> federalism.&#0160; See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/15\/business\/competition-is-good-for-governments-too-economic-view.html?_r=1\" target=\"_self\">Competition is Healthy for Governments, Too.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Obama and his ilk oppose federalism.&#0160; Obama must go.&#0160; And with him his ilk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives understand that competition is good.&#0160; It breeds excellence.&#0160; And contrary to what some liberals think, competition that breeds excellence is not opposed to cooperation but presupposes it.&#0160; We need more competition, not less, and we need it at the level of government not just in the business world and in our private lives. How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/15\/federalism-and-governmental-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Federalism and Governmental Competition&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}