{"id":37,"date":"2009-02-19T00:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T07:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-02-19T00:54:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T07:54:13","slug":"big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/we-the-people\/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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rikba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}