{"id":35686,"date":"2013-04-10T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2013-04-10T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:50:40","slug":"the-ultimate-public-private-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35686","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate &#8220;Public-Private Partnership&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals will occasionally try to sound &#8220;moderate&#8221; by claiming to favor &#8220;partnerships&#8221; between government and business.<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;partnerships&#8221; usually amount to one of a couple of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The worst of both worlds; the inefficiency of government combined with the lean capitalization of a business<\/li>\n<li>The government picks a winner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In neither case do things work out well, as a general rule.<\/p>\n<p>Except with <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/blog\/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr\/fbi-conducting-32-gun-purchase-background-checks-minute-under-obama\">this example, perhaps the most successful public private &#8220;partnership&#8221; in all history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying; if my financial planner hasn&#8217;t put a ton of money into Glock USA and Sturm Ruger, we&#8217;re gonna have to talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals will occasionally try to sound &#8220;moderate&#8221; by claiming to favor &#8220;partnerships&#8221; between government and business. These &#8220;partnerships&#8221; usually amount to one of a couple of things: The worst of both worlds; the inefficiency of government combined with the lean capitalization of a business The government picks a winner In neither case do things work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,30,64,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-liberty","category-president-obama","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35687,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions\/35687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}