{"id":749,"date":"2011-11-18T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2011-11-18T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:22:29","slug":"sarah-palin-on-crony-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/sarah-palin-on-crony-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin on Crony Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted to read <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204323904577040373463191222.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read\">Sarah Palin&#8217;s op-ed<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal. This piece deals with the topic of Crony Capitalism, which she also addressed in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahpac.com\/posts\/governor-palins-speech-at-the-restoring-america-tea-party-of-america-rally-in-indianola-iowa-video-and-transcript\">September 3 Iowa speech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; They talk endlessly about cutting government spending, and yet they keep spending more. They talk about massive unsustainable debt, and yet they keep incurring more. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No, they don&#8217;t feel the same urgency that we do. But why should they? For them business is good; business is very good.  Seven of the ten wealthiest counties are suburbs of Washington, D.C. Polls there actually&mdash;and usually I say polls, eh, they&#8217;re for strippers and cross country skiers&mdash;but polls in those parts show that some people there believe that the economy has actually improved. See, there may not be a recession in Georgetown, but there is in the rest of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad. This is a drum that needs beating, almost as much as the crony capitalists need beating. By continuing to address the topic, she sheds light on the source of some of our nation&#8217;s greatest troubles, and ways we can fix them. More light, I would say, than two months of silly #OWS self-indulgence. Good for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted to read Sarah Palin&#8217;s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. This piece deals with the topic of Crony Capitalism, which she also addressed in her September 3 Iowa speech: &#8230; They talk endlessly about cutting government spending, and yet they keep spending more. They talk about massive unsustainable debt, and yet they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[438,439,212,213,437,440],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-capitalism","tag-cronyism","tag-palin","tag-politics-2","tag-sarah-palin","tag-washington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-c5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}