{"id":355,"date":"2011-09-25T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2011-09-25T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:02:00","slug":"how-do-you-say-economic-security-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Say \u2018Economic Security\u2019? &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/24\/opinion\/how-do-you-say-economic-security.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/24\/opinion\/how-do-you-say-economic-security.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">How Do You Say \u2018Economic Security\u2019? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In  1934, the government was us. We had shared circumstances, shared risks  and shared obligations. Today the government is the other \u2014 not an  institution for the achievement of our common goals, but an alien  presence that stands between us and the realization of individual  ambitions. Programs of social insurance have become \u201centitlements,\u201d a  word apparently meant to signify not a collectively provided and  cherished basis for family-income security, but a sinister threat to our  national well-being.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last 50 years we seem to have lost the words \u2014 and with them the ideas \u2014 to frame our situation appropriately. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I firmly believe that one of our major problems today is that conservatives view our government, the one established <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">in our Constitution <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">by  the people, for the people, to provide for the General Welfare,  is  &#8220;them,&#8221; while liberals view it as &#8220;us,&#8221; and thus we must take  responsibility for making it better, rather than just tearing it down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do You Say \u2018Economic Security\u2019? &#8211; NYTimes.com: &#8220;In 1934, the government was us. We had shared circumstances, shared risks and shared obligations. Today the government is the other \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Do You Say \u2018Economic Security\u2019? &#8211; NYTimes.com&#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-355","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\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}