{"id":24989,"date":"2018-08-09T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24989"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:00:50","slug":"image-of-the-day-wrong-socialist-the-upper-middle-class-has-grown-not-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24989\/image-of-the-day-wrong-socialist-the-upper-middle-class-has-grown-not-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Wrong, Socialist &#8211; the Upper Middle Class Has Grown, Not Disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of James Pethokoukis at the American Enterprise Institute, a splendid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/no-the-us-upper-middle-class-hasnt-vanished-heres-yet-another-economics-chart-for-alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1ZMFpqRmlOakJqTW1KayIsInQiOiJGT0pBM3BkaVgrXC9hUXlhNjRuaDFUOEl4MjROeEJOZGEwbWlnSkIxd1FEc1lxdk56cWh4aTU0SklrXC9BcStNbEQrbUpTaXJRNVFNV2g5NGNVQUJuMCtZWnhSOWFwWkVHTFZyXC9Md3lJd2JuZjBINng0V3Jza3lZeUcyR1BIcG5RbyJ9\" target=\"_blank\">visual refutation<\/a> of budding socialist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic candidate for Congress in New York, who recently and bizarrely said that the &#8220;upper middle class doesn&#8217;t exist anymore in America.&#8221;\u00a0 Well:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sorry, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez:  Upper Middle Class Growing, Not Shrinking\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062116wsj.jpg\" alt=\"Sorry, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez:  Upper Middle Class Growing, Not Shrinking\" width=\"648\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of James Pethokoukis at the American Enterprise Institute, a splendid visual refutation of budding socialist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic candidate for Congress in New York, who recently and bizarrely said that the &#8220;upper middle class doesn&#8217;t exist anymore in America.&#8221;\u00a0 Well:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[562,1119,5034,1992],"class_list":["post-24989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economics","tag-middle-class","tag-ocasio-cortez","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24998,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989\/revisions\/24998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}