{"id":11606,"date":"2011-10-10T18:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2011-10-10T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:59:32","slug":"paul-ryan%e2%80%99s-opportunity-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11606\/paul-ryan%e2%80%99s-opportunity-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan\u2019s Opportunity Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/politicolive\/1011\/Paul_Ryan_Republicans_arent_defending_the_rich.html?showall\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Meet the Press<\/em><\/a>, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) demonstrated how to reframe quickly just about any debate on taxes or the economy into one that favors free markets and opportunities for everyone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t worry about people who are already rich. I worry about getting people to become successful,&#8221; Ryan said Sunday on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; &#8220;Removing those barriers so that people who have never seen success before can actually become successful. &#8230; This redistribution idea of pinning people against each other does not work. It&#8217;s divisive, and it hardly gives us the kind of attitude we want for businesses to take risks so we can succeed in the future.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Conservatives need more of this kind of rhetoric from leading politicians.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope the eventual GOP nominee lifts Ryan\u2019s lines to give an inspirational lift to what will surely be a withering attack on the failed Obama economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On yesterday\u2019s Meet the Press, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) demonstrated how to reframe quickly just about any debate on taxes or the economy into one that favors free markets and opportunities for everyone: &#8220;I don&#8217;t worry about people who are already rich. I worry about getting people to become successful,&#8221; Ryan said Sunday on NBC&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,2597,19,3116,802,71],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-conservatives","tag-economy","tag-opportunity","tag-paul-ryan","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11610,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions\/11610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}