{"id":40227,"date":"2012-02-08T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40227"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:33:04","slug":"40227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40227","title":{"rendered":"The United States Is Becoming Like Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The movement of the United States towards being Greece. Having the American media (outside of Fox News, the WSJ, talk radio) behind you, the carpet bombing of left-wing rhetoric on society is a major vehicle for any Democrat. Our national debt would be the number one issue for the media if it were not left-wing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mitt Romney has decided that the battle should be tactical. Are you better off or worse off than four years ago? Run on that and you&#8217;ll go to the White House. Tell people you can fix the job crisis because you&#8217;re a fixer upper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fixer uppers are not inspiring. We all need plumbers but they don&#8217;t inspire. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This notion of I know how to fix it because I&#8217;m a businessman does not work. That&#8217;s why businessmen tend not to run for politics. They think like businessmen, not leaders. The purpose of a businessman is to create profit, a noble purpose. That&#8217;s not the same as, &#8216;Here is why the Left is ruining this country as it is ruining Europe.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barack Obama is a fine man who&#8217;s ruining this country. That&#8217;s the story of the Left &#8212; when nice people, well-intentioned people, ruin society.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The movement of the United States towards being Greece. Having the American media (outside of Fox News, the WSJ, talk radio) behind you, the carpet bombing of left-wing rhetoric on society is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40232,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40227\/revisions\/40232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}