{"id":1143,"date":"2011-10-06T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2011-10-06T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T23:05:32","slug":"social-contracts-and-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/10\/social-contracts-and-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Contracts and Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/elizabeth-warren-and-liberalism-twisting-the-social-contract\/2011\/10\/04\/gIQAXi5VOL_story.html?hpid=z2&amp;wpisrc=nl_wonk\">Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the \u2018social contract\u2019 &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if George Will is being deliberately obtuse? He has taken Warren&#8217;s statement on the social contract and extends it into a collectivist political agenda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The collectivist agenda is antithetical to America\u2019s premise, which is: Government \u2014 including such public goods as roads, schools and police \u2014 is instituted to facilitate <em>individual<\/em> striving, a.k.a. the pursuit of happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The individual striving is enabled by the government infrastructure and it is fair and equitable that any success in the pursuit of happiness provide some payback. And the greater the success the greater the payback should be. Or as Warren refers to it &#8211; pay forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the \u2018social contract\u2019 &#8211; The Washington Post. &nbsp; I wonder if George Will is being deliberately obtuse? He has taken Warren&#8217;s statement on the social contract and extends it into a collectivist political agenda. The collectivist agenda is antithetical to America\u2019s premise, which is: Government \u2014 including such public goods &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/10\/social-contracts-and-will\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Contracts and Will<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}