{"id":495,"date":"2009-08-31T18:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-11-04T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:50:28","slug":"capitalism-works-best-when-left-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism Works Best When Left Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-496\" title=\"capitalismworksbest650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/capitalismworksbest650w.jpg\" alt=\"capitalismworksbest650w\" width=\"650\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/capitalismworksbest650w.jpg 650w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/capitalismworksbest650w-150x118.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/capitalismworksbest650w-400x316.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/capitalismworksbest650w-500x396.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the Capitol Hill Teabaggers&#8217; Rally this past July 4th,<\/strong> I spotted more than a few signs saying &#8220;Capitalism Works Best When Left Alone&#8221;, and it got me thinking, what vast new entrepreneurial opportunities have been denied owing to government regulations and petty tyrannies such as the Clean Water Act, The Pure Food And Drug Act, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/kaufman09192008.html\" target=\"_blank\">Glass-Steagall Act&#8230;?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Capitalism Works Best When Left Alone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/capitalismworksbest\/capitalismworksbest.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong> <\/a>792k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Capitol Hill Teabaggers&#8217; Rally this past July 4th, I spotted more than a few signs saying &#8220;Capitalism Works Best When Left Alone&#8221;, and it got me thinking, what vast new entrepreneurial opportunities have been denied owing to government regulations and petty tyrannies such as the Clean Water Act, The Pure Food And Drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,158,8],"tags":[187,184,87,182,183,188,137,185,189,186],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-obamarama","category-right-wingnuts","tag-air","tag-banking","tag-capitalism","tag-glass-steagall","tag-investment","tag-labor","tag-nuclear","tag-regulations","tag-safety","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}