{"id":12946,"date":"2011-11-22T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2011-11-22T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T20:21:46","slug":"welfare-reform-and-the-us-insurance-giant-unum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/22\/welfare-reform-and-the-us-insurance-giant-unum\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare reform and the US insurance giant Unum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All I can say is <a href=\"http:\/\/think-left.org\/2011\/11\/22\/welfare-reform-and-the-us-insurance-giant-unum\/\" target=\"_blank\">please read this from 'Think Left'<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS is being dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>So is welfare.<\/p>\n<p>And all to make the rich richer.<\/p>\n<p>I could weep.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I'm angry.<\/p>\n<p>And I know I'm not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Through #occupy.<\/p>\n<p>Through other movements.<\/p>\n<p>By our personal acts.<\/p>\n<p>By our collective acts.<\/p>\n<p>We have to claim the right to be the people we can be, and which this\u00a0government\u00a0and those it acts for want to deny to at least 99% of us.<\/p>\n<p>That's why I wrote<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Courageous-State-Rethinking-Economi\/dp\/1907720286\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\" target=\"_blank\"> The Courageous State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was and is my way of saying we have a right to this country.<\/p>\n<p>But a tiny minority are trying to take it away.<\/p>\n<p>And we have to say no; that will not happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I can say is please read this from &#8216;Think Left&#8217;. The NHS is being dismantled. So is welfare. And all to make the rich<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/22\/welfare-reform-and-the-us-insurance-giant-unum\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,14,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-courageous-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}