{"id":310,"date":"2009-02-13T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2009-02-19T00:53:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T07:53:16","slug":"big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/photography\/big-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">always<\/span> a tradeoff:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\" style=\"font-size: 17px; margin-top: 25px; line-height: 23px;\">&#8220;A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-author\">-Barry Goldwater 1968<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Something to think about amidst all of this sentiment from Washington about how only government spending can save us now.  The New Deal was a very invasive program back in the 30&#8217;s, and it&#8217;s influence &#8211; as it is still today found crawling forward &#8211; is being revived once again by a new wave of &#8220;big government&#8221; mentalities.  You may not see a tremendous dissipation of liberty immediately, but as time has shown, the impact is abhorrent and long lasting.  <\/p>\n<p>I believe the solution is confidence, faith, creativity, and hard work.  In my opinion, anyone that tells you otherwise has an agenda.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always a tradeoff: &#8220;A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.&#8221; -Barry Goldwater 1968 Something to think about amidst all of this sentiment from Washington about how only government spending can save us now. The New Deal was a very invasive program back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20FV9-50","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}