{"id":8397,"date":"2009-08-04T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2009-08-04T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:08:26","slug":"quote-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8397","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote><p>If you like the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they\u2019re run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/index.php\/site\/comments\/no_lie_too_outrageous\/\">Arthur Laffer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that would be really bad. What&#8217;s next? The government taking over the Army? Or our schools? Or &#8212; gasp &#8212;\u00a0<em>Social Security<\/em>? Say it ain&#8217;t so!<\/p>\n<p>And yes, we are talking about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Laffer\">that Arthur Laffer<\/a>, the inventor of supply-side economics. I can&#8217;t imagine why that hasn&#8217;t worked out.<\/p>\n<p>(Via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/08\/quote-of-the-week.html\">publius<\/a>.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they\u2019re run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government. &#8212;Arthur Laffer Yeah, that would be really bad. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}