{"id":13,"date":"2009-03-12T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuneogtd.com\/jbarry\/?p=13"},"modified":"2009-03-12T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T17:40:30","slug":"the-best-form-of-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/the-best-form-of-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Form of Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Not long ago I was doing some analysis of our business; no surprise during these challenging economic times. I am grateful to say that we are abundantly blessed and I am very grateful. I\u2019m also grateful that we can help, for you see, every week there are roughly 75 people in our city who have a roof over their heads and food on their table because our company is in business (and that doesn\u2019t include all our suppliers and vendors). This made me feel pretty good. Our business, our work, our personal risk, is making a difference in people\u2019s lives. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here: to make a difference!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"symbiotic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cuneogtd.com\/jbarry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/symbiotic-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"symbiotic\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/symbiotic-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/symbiotic.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There is no possible way the government could ever tax me enough to feed and house 75 people.<\/p>\n<p>Looks to me like capitalism is the best form of welfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago I was doing some analysis of our business; no surprise during these challenging economic times. I am grateful to say that we are abundantly blessed and I am very grateful. I\u2019m also grateful that we can help, for you see, every week there are roughly 75 people in our city who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-capitalism","tag-economics","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}