{"id":34909,"date":"2018-01-25T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34909"},"modified":"2018-01-05T08:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:35:32","slug":"qotd-the-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/qotd-the-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Of such sorts are the wizards who now run the country. Here is the perfect pattern of a professional world-saver. His whole life has been devoted to the art and science of spending other people\u2019s money. He has saved millions of the down-trodden from starvation, pestilence, cannibalism, and worse \u2013 always at someone else\u2019s expense, and usually at the taxpayer\u2019s. He has been going at it over and over again at Washington. And now, with $4,800,000,000 of your money and mine in his hands, he is preparing to save fresh multitudes, that they may be fat and optimistic on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, 1936, and so mark their ballots in the right box.<\/p>\n<p>H.L Mencken, &#8220;The New Deal&#8221;, <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em>, 1935-05-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of such sorts are the wizards who now run the country. Here is the perfect pattern of a professional world-saver. His whole life has been devoted to the art and science of spending other people\u2019s money. He has saved millions of the down-trodden from starvation, pestilence, cannibalism, and worse \u2013 always at someone else\u2019s expense, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[7,53,41,13],"tags":[866,106],"class_list":["post-34909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-fdr","tag-greatdepression"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-953","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909","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=34909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34910,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909\/revisions\/34910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}