{"id":5253,"date":"2009-08-14T05:08:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T10:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2009-08-14T05:08:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T10:08:48","slug":"there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5253","title":{"rendered":"There Is Nothing New Under The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s interesting, listening to this 1961 speech by Ronald Reagan<\/a>, how long the idea of socialized medicine\/”single payer healthcare” has been knocking around. \u00a0He even notes the old “What would you do – throw senior citizens out in the streets” which, being alive in the 1980’s, I thought started in the 1980’s.<\/p>\n

And while pining for the old days is a deadly narcotic, it’s amazing to listen to not only how eloquently Reagan trashes the idea, but with with a level of literate details. \u00a0They say American’s attention spans are shorter than they used to be – but on this sort of thing?<\/p>\n

Anyway – worth a ten minute listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s interesting, listening to this 1961 speech by Ronald Reagan, how long the idea of socialized medicine\/”single payer healthcare” has been knocking around. \u00a0He even notes the old “What would you do – throw senior citizens out in the streets” which, being alive in the 1980’s, I thought started in the 1980’s. And while pining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","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=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}