{"id":205,"date":"2012-08-18T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-08-18T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:26:00","slug":"they-have-our-backs-we-should-have-theirs-the-incidental-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"They have our backs. We should have theirs | The Incidental Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/they-have-our-backs-we-should-have-theirs\/\">They have our backs. We should have theirs | The Incidental Economist<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I earn much more money. Some might conclude that I am the superior  contributor to American society, simply because I hold a more lucrative  job. After all, my tax dollars support a social safety-net that tow  truck driver\u2019s family might use: the Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicaid,  CHIP, and more. Yet this truck driver and that IDOT guy operate a  safety-net for me, too, which I used when I encountered trouble along  the road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Much important work is done by people with sore backs and calloused  hands who don\u2019t get paid that much, but who pick our fruit, diaper our  kids, prepare our meals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/romney-and-ryan-are-overlooking-the-underclass\/2012\/08\/13\/63e917ea-e579-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_story.html\">drive our kids to school<\/a>,  and more. My brother-in-law was recently hospitalized with a minor  infection. In the next bed over, two nurse\u2019s aides gently cleaned a  very-sick uninsured man. I\u2019ll probably need that help someday, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Each of us is both a maker and a taker in life. I shouldn\u2019t apologize  for my good paycheck. I shouldn\u2019t object, either, if I\u2019m asked to pay a  little more so that these tow truck drivers and nurse\u2019s aides have  access to decent medical care. They have my back. I should have theirs,  too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have our backs. We should have theirs | The Incidental Economist I earn much more money. Some might conclude that I am the superior contributor to American society, simply &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They have our backs. We should have theirs | The Incidental Economist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contrarian-economics","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}