{"id":14105,"date":"2009-03-11T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2009-03-11T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:00:44","slug":"very-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/very-progressive.html","title":{"rendered":"Very Progressive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, according to this survey<\/a>, that’s how I rank — scoring 276\/400, with the average American score 209.5.<\/p>\n

I’ll confess that beyond my previous social liberalism, my economic moderate status has been provoked over the last several months. I do believe that central economic control is rarely a good idea, and it’s certainly possible for both “bread & circuises” and wishes-over-reality — not to mention governmental corruption, political hackery, and bureaucratic metastization can do great harm. While, on the other hand, competition, the marketplace of goods and ideas, the promotion of personal responsibility and entrepreneurial spirit can work wonders.<\/p>\n

But …<\/p>\n

The lesson of the last two decades, come home to roost in the last year, demonstrates that “survival of the fittest” in an economic sense leaves a lot more losers than winners … that corruption can manifest in unaccountable private as well as ostensibly representative public … that a rising tide doesn’t lift all ships, especially when it’s a tsunami.<\/p>\n

In sort, there are times when government can, in fact, help. Can prevent exploitation, while not preventing innovation. Can support what individuals cannot, and the profit motive will not — while recognizing that individual achievement, and, yes, profit, can motivate powerfully and foster laudable success.<\/p>\n

It’s a dream I have.<\/p>\n

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I do believe that central economic control is rarely a good idea, and it’s certainly possible for … Continue reading “Very Progressive?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personality-tests","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13941,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/one-sign-of-the-economic-times.html","url_meta":{"origin":14105,"position":0},"title":"One sign of the economic times…","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Feb-09 7:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"One sign of the economic times - I am getting a *lot* of cold calls at work from consulting \/ staffing firms.","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25283,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/the-economic-system-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html","url_meta":{"origin":14105,"position":1},"title":"The economic system that dare not speak its name","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jan-12 11:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, Luntz isn't suggesting changing what the GOP stands for: \"Conservatives should not be defending capitalism. 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