{"id":5531,"date":"2014-04-24T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2014-04-23T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:24:22","slug":"conundrum-from-mom-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5531","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum&#8230; (from mom again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The definition of conundrum is something that is puzzling or confusing. Here are seven conundrums of creeping socialism in the United States of America:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. America is capitalist and greedy &#8211; yet half of the population is subsidized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Half of the population is subsidized &#8211; yet they think they are victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. They think they are victims &#8211; yet their representatives run the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. Their representatives run the government &#8211; yet the poor keep getting poorer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">5. The poor keep getting poorer &#8211; yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about &#8211; yet they want America to be more like those other countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">7. They want America to be more like those other countries &#8211; because they think America is capitalist and greedy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That pretty much sums up the USA and the 47% who pay no taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of conundrum is something that is puzzling or confusing. Here are seven conundrums of creeping socialism in the United States of America: 1. America is capitalist and greedy &#8211; yet half of the population is subsidized. 2. Half of the population is subsidized &#8211; yet they think they are victims. 3. They think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conundrum&#8230; (from mom again)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}