{"id":1266,"date":"2009-09-27T22:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:40:48","slug":"beckbytes-arguing-with-idiots-about-capitalism-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Beckbytes &#8211; Arguing With Idiots About Capitalism II"},"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 clip about <del datetime=\"2009-09-28T11:16:48+00:00\">privatization<\/del> corporatization.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A.D.D. Moment &#8211; New Zealand corporatized their postal service in 1987.  As Cornell professor Richard Geddes notes, that change &#8220;led to improvements in efficiency, a 40% reduction in the system&#8217;s workforce, a doubling in labor productivity, a decrease in the cost of sending a letter and a decrease in the price of a basic stamp.&#8221;  And they did it all without impacting service in either rural or urban communities.<\/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 clip about privatization corporatization. A.D.D. Moment &#8211; New Zealand corporatized their postal service in 1987. As Cornell professor Richard Geddes notes, that change &#8220;led to improvements in efficiency, a 40% reduction in the system&#8217;s workforce, a doubling [&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":[5,7,22,39,53,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beckbytes","category-business","category-glenn-beck","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-politics-international","category-quotalicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}