{"id":7274,"date":"2009-12-22T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2009-12-17T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T00:08:45","slug":"around-the-mob-for-personal-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7274","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: For Personal Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a time when blogging was a little like Twittering is today; indeed, in the days before Twitter, many blogs were a medium for people to publish quick jottings to an audience.<\/p>\n

Some of us shifted to the longer and longer form post over time (MITCH’S AUDIENCE: “No kidding?”); others stayed with the original idea.<\/p>\n

Some still do.\u00a0 Alan Anderson has been doing “For Personal Responsibility” for the past four years; a long series of piquant, focused personal jottings.<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/a>;<\/p>\n

President Lyndon Johnson’s administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama’s will be known for his War on Prosperity.<\/p>\n

I’m speaking, of course, about Obama’s effort to engineer a massive redistribution of wealth in America, using all the coercive powers of government now under Democrat control.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake about it: Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it, and disincentivize it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Economical.\u00a0 To the point.\u00a0 No messing around.<\/p>\n

“For Personal Responsibility” is like a political commonplace book for someone who thinks about the subject a lot.\u00a0 And since I agree with Mr. Anderson, near as I can tell, on most everything, that’s a very good thing.<\/p>\n

Stop by, say “hi”, and support your local MOB bloggers.\u00a0 Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time when blogging was a little like Twittering is today; indeed, in the days before Twitter, many blogs were a medium for people to publish quick jottings to an audience. Some of us shifted to the longer and longer form post over time (MITCH’S AUDIENCE: “No kidding?”); others stayed with the original […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274","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=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7276,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}