{"id":7223,"date":"2010-09-28T23:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T03:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2010-09-29T11:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:32:39","slug":"im-all-in-with-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7223\/im-all-in-with-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m All In &#8230; With Your Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote of the day comes from former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-reich\/republican-economics-as-s_b_739654.html\" target=\"_blank\">in a remarkably dishonest attack on conservative economics at the Huffington Post<\/a> &#8212; pulls out one of the oldest rhetorical tricks in the book, making a prediction he&#8217;ll never be held accountable for:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look, I used to be a trustee of the Social Security trust fund. Believe me when I tell you Social Security is basically okay. It may need a little fine tuning but I guarantee you&#8217;ll receive your Social Security check by the time you retire even if that&#8217;s forty years from now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Put aside that the substance of Reich&#8217;s argument is &#8220;trust me&#8221;. The 64-year old Reich is writing a check that his actuarial table can&#8217;t cash. May Secretary Reich live to be 104. That&#8217;s a good age for humility to kick in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote of the day comes from former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who &#8212; in a remarkably dishonest attack on conservative economics at the Huffington Post &#8212; pulls out one of the oldest rhetorical tricks in the book, making a prediction he&#8217;ll never be held accountable for: Look, I used to be a trustee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[562,1890,1889,461],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economics","tag-huffington-post","tag-robert-reich","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}