{"id":26556,"date":"2014-06-28T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26556"},"modified":"2014-06-28T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T15:56:59","slug":"31-of-americans-believe-the-us-is-a-crony-capitalist-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/31-of-americans-believe-the-us-is-a-crony-capitalist-state\/","title":{"rendered":"31% of Americans believe the US is a crony capitalist state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-one percent of Americans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/april_2014\/31_believe_u_s_has_crony_capitalist_system\" target=\"_blank\">probably right<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many Americans remain unconvinced that the United States has a system of free market capitalism and continue to be wary of government involvement in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 32% of American Adults believe the United States has a system of free market capitalism, while just as many (31%) say it is a system of crony capitalism. Slightly more (37%) are not sure what kind of capitalist system America has. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from a survey conducted at the beginning of April. I suspect the same survey done now would produce a plurality for the crony capitalist side.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notjessewalker\/status\/482890564610695168\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Walker<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-one percent of Americans are probably right: Many Americans remain unconvinced that the United States has a system of free market capitalism and continue to be wary of government involvement in the economy. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 32% of American Adults believe the United States has a system of free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,13],"tags":[727,289],"class_list":["post-26556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-usa","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Uk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26558,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions\/26558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}