{"id":1649,"date":"2010-05-22T23:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T03:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2020-04-09T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:06:07","slug":"libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/22\/libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As usual <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/21\/why-libertarianism-doesnt-work-part-n1\/\">Paul Krugman<\/a> puts it better than me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I\u2019m sure that in his own mind Rand Paul sees himself as a principled libertarian, applying the same standard of personal responsibility to everyone. In practice, however, it\u2019s only the poor and powerless who get held to that standard; when it\u2019s a big coal or oil company \u2014 and we already know that both Massey and BP were severely negligent \u2014 well, \u201csometimes accidents happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual Paul Krugman puts it better than me: I\u2019m sure that in his own mind Rand Paul sees himself as a principled libertarian, applying the same standard of personal responsibility to everyone. In practice, however, it\u2019s only the poor and powerless who get held&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}