{"id":179183,"date":"2018-04-24T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/24\/tweet-of-the-day-189\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T23:23:00","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/24\/tweet-of-the-day-189\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remember, Social Security and Medicare began as small, pilot programs that eventually evolved to provide guaranteed coverage. Oh, wait, no.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Stephanie Kelton (@StephanieKelton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephanieKelton\/status\/988399864349429761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A very good point is being made here:  The people who want a pilot roll-out of something like single payer actually trying to kill it.<\/p>\n<p>Single payer, and things like the jobs guarantee, <b>CANNOT<\/b> not work unless they are universal in nature, and pilot programs are, by the very nature of their being pilot programs, are likely to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, Social Security and Medicare began as small, pilot programs that eventually evolved to provide guaranteed coverage. Oh, wait, no. \u2014 Stephanie Kelton (@StephanieKelton) April 23, 2018 A very good point is being made here: The people who want a pilot roll-out of something like single payer actually trying to kill it. Single payer, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-179183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}