{"id":2479,"date":"2011-09-12T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2011-09-13T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:32:47","slug":"forcing-charity-a-contradiction-at-the-root-of-left-wing-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/forcing-charity-a-contradiction-at-the-root-of-left-wing-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Forcing Charity: A Contradiction At The Root Of Left-Wing Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase <i>forced charity<\/i> is a contradiction, and yet it&#8217;s precisely this principle that&#8217;s the cornerstone of virtually all left-wing doctrine. <\/p>\n<p>In one form or another, forcing charity lies at the root of every major democratic program &#8212; from public schools, to welfare, to social security, to medicare and medicaid, to unemployment checks, <a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/obama-suddenly-envisions-an-america-where-we-live-within-our-means\/\">and so on<\/a>, all of which, the left-winger believes, cannot be <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/daily\/2888\">handled voluntarily,<\/a> and so must be forced. <\/p>\n<p>But suppose for a moment that this bedrock belief is wrong. What then?<\/p>\n<p>The following is an explosive phone call which recently took place on 850 KOA, and it captures the issue in such a way that it might just change your life. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rossputin.com\/\">Ross Kaminsky<\/a> is the host. It is a civil and absolutely riveting exchange between a garden-variety left-winger and black republican who does not believe in or want government handouts, and who properly understands the danger of such handouts. <\/p>\n<p>Push play and then slide the player over to exactly the 22:50 mark. The call lasts about seven minutes. Listen: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase forced charity is a contradiction, and yet it&#8217;s precisely this principle that&#8217;s the cornerstone of virtually all left-wing doctrine. In one form or another, forcing charity lies at the root of every major democratic program &#8212; from public schools, to welfare, to social security, to medicare and medicaid, to unemployment checks, and so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/forcing-charity-a-contradiction-at-the-root-of-left-wing-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forcing Charity: A Contradiction At The Root Of Left-Wing Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1826],"tags":[1953,1950,1954,1949,1955,1951,1952,1948,1956],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}