{"id":1264,"date":"2009-09-26T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T12:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2009-09-26T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T12:55:50","slug":"beckbytes-arguing-with-socialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Beckbytes: Arguing With Idiots About Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Glenn Beck&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416595015?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=officiallyscr-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1416595015\">Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=officiallyscr-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1416595015\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> comes this gem on how capitalism performs when compared to socialistic government programs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Profits=Progress:  In January 2006, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced 314 new public projects as part of his rebuilding effort after Katrina.  Over two and a half years later, just six of them were complete.  Conversely, Wal-Mart had 126 of their stores damaged in the hurricane; 110 of them were up and running within ten days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Glenn Beck&#8217;s new book Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government comes this gem on how capitalism performs when compared to socialistic government programs. Profits=Progress: In January 2006, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced 314 new public projects as part of his rebuilding effort after Katrina. Over two and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,22,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beckbytes","category-business","category-glenn-beck","category-quotalicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}