{"id":1804,"date":"2012-06-23T02:11:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T09:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:06:05","slug":"temporarily-embarrassed-millionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-1810\" title=\"redneckwisdom\">Author John Steinbeck famously observed that \u201cSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.\u201d We think this insightful comment best explains why anybody in the United States would vote for putting Republicans back in charge of the country after eight disastrous years of Bushonomics (tax cuts for the rich, spend the country into bankruptcy and the middle class foots the bill). Oh, that&#8217;s right. Spiff Romney is rich and he&#8217;ll make us all rich, too. Ah, the trickle down myth lives on!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1810\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1810\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1810\" title=\"redneckwisdom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/redneckwisdom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/redneckwisdom.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/redneckwisdom-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of temporarily embarrassed millionaires contemplate their march to grandeur under a Spiff Romney presidency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author John Steinbeck famously observed that \u201cSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.\u201d We think this insightful comment best explains why anybody in the United States would vote for putting Republicans back in charge of the country after eight disastrous years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,60,8,85,3,994],"tags":[50,74,252,22,9,585,21,98,65,587,536,19,586,150,584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}