{"id":187899,"date":"2011-01-31T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/31\/and-in-the-annals-of-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:45:00","slug":"and-in-the-annals-of-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/31\/and-in-the-annals-of-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"And in the Annals of Hypocrisy\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have Ayn &#8220;<i>Atlas Shrugged&#8221;<\/i> Rand, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/28\/ayn-rand-took-govern.html\">took medicare to pay for her lung cancer surgeries<\/a>, and Congressman Paul &#8220;We will transform our social safety net into a hammock&#8221; Ryan, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpri.org\/WIInterest\/Vol19No2\/Schneider19.2.html\">freely collected social security benefits after his father died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t generally begrudge people accessing social programs, but when you call people who need them &#8220;moochers&#8221; and the like, you are a hypocrite and a wanker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have Ayn &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221; Rand, who took medicare to pay for her lung cancer surgeries, and Congressman Paul &#8220;We will transform our social safety net into a hammock&#8221; Ryan, who freely collected social security benefits after his father died. I don&#8217;t generally begrudge people accessing social programs, but when you call people who need &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1051,1003,1086,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-philosophy","category-social-safety-net","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187899"}],"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=187899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}