{"id":5549,"date":"2012-08-26T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T19:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2012-08-26T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T19:56:19","slug":"required-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=5549","title":{"rendered":"Required Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz&#39;s <em>The Price of Inequality<\/em>. It really should be required reading for everyone, but at least for every Democratic politician, starting with the guy living on Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, there&#39;s nothing in the book that any progressive minded individual wouldn&#39;t know, but it&#39;s packaged persuasively and with authority.<\/p>\n<p>His prescriptions would probably find favor with 80% of the 99%, were they to be instituted. It speaks volumes about the extent to which our politics has been captured by the 1% that the chances of their adoption are remote, that neither political party has embraced them or anything near them (though to a great extent he is calling for the Democrats to bring back their glory years), even though failing to adopt them may assure our continued decline.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of decline, our rapid fall from the peak makes you want to take your hat off to the Romans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;\" id=\"blogsy_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz&#39;s The Price of Inequality. It really should be required reading for everyone, but at least for every Democratic politician, starting with the guy living on Pennsylvania Avenue. Oddly enough, there&#39;s nothing in the book that any progressive minded individual wouldn&#39;t know, but it&#39;s packaged persuasively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}