{"id":14024,"date":"2012-02-07T07:14:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14024"},"modified":"2012-02-07T07:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:14:47","slug":"the-american-right-wing-turn-on-the-old-and-its-a-trend-were-bound-to-see-copied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/07\/the-american-right-wing-turn-on-the-old-and-its-a-trend-were-bound-to-see-copied\/","title":{"rendered":"The American right wing turn on the old &#8211; and it&#8217;s a trend we&#8217;re bound to see copied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows the new line of thinking from the American right on the\u00a0cause\u00a0of our\u00a0economic\u00a0problems - blame the old.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Geezers Are the True Enemy of Occupy Wall Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eGIoDTtUS80?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0understand\u00a0some more about the speaker, <a href=\"http:\/\/my.firedoglake.com\/rfshunt\/2012\/02\/02\/koch-bros-mouthpiece-tells-occupy-forget-the-1-go-after-granny\/\" target=\"_blank\">just click here<\/a>. This is Koch Industries at work.<\/p>\n<p>But mad - and bad - as this logic is expect it to be followed. The idea that we 'can't afford the elderly' is growing rapidly. It's the\u00a0inevitable\u00a0outcome of the 'we can't afford pensions' argument. And morally it takes us toi places I'd rather not go - but will if I have to,\u00a0because\u00a0I sure as heck do not think we consign the old to destitution, even if the right do.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: TJN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows the new line of thinking from the American right on the\u00a0cause\u00a0of our\u00a0economic\u00a0problems &#8211; blame the old. To\u00a0understand\u00a0some more about the speaker, just<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/07\/the-american-right-wing-turn-on-the-old-and-its-a-trend-were-bound-to-see-copied\/\"><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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024","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=14024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}