{"id":455,"date":"2010-10-22T07:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/?p=455"},"modified":"2015-08-26T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T05:44:17","slug":"willrogers-political-quote-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/willrogers-political-quote-insanity\/455","title":{"rendered":"Will Rogers Defines Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Rogers<\/a>Seventy seven years ago the country was in depression. The greatest economic minds were unable to come up with solutions according to Will Rogers’ quote. Not only that, but anyone making economic forecasts must be insane! Nothing was working – unemployment was high. The Roosevelt era had embarked on massive deficit spending and government work programs. Sound familiar? It should, it’s out of today’s headlines!
\n
Today we have the benefit of hindsight that they didn’t have. They didn’t know socialism\/communism would ultimately fail. They didn’t know tax cuts under John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan would produce economic growth.
\n
It’s time to go back to the future, and end this economic insanity. It starts with a vote on election day!<\/p>\n

\n

Image Information: <\/strong>The image of Rogers is from his 1921 silent film\u00a0Guile of Women<\/em>. Rogers plays a Swede named Yal who travels with a friend to America to seek his fortune. After misfortunes in love and business, his girlfriend finally arrives from Sweden.<\/p>\n

I hope you have enjoyed this quote from Will Rogers and the accompanying image taken from the\u00a0Will Rogers<\/a> iPhone app. Please visit our\u00a0blog<\/a>,\u00a0twitter<\/a>, or\u00a0Facebook<\/a> page regularly and pass these posts on to friends that might enjoy a bit of wisdom from Will Rogers.<\/p>\n

Will Rogers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will RogersSeventy seven years ago the country was in depression. The greatest economic minds were unable to come up with solutions according to Will Rogers’ quote. Not only that, but anyone making economic forecasts must be insane! Nothing was working – unemployment was high. The Roosevelt era had embarked on massive deficit spending and government … <\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_mailpress_mailing_list_will-rogers-mailing-list","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7062,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/7062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}