{"id":9701,"date":"2011-10-11T05:45:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2011-10-11T05:45:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:45:39","slug":"the-social-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-social-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"The social contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In addition to my other pessimistic predictions, I am thinking that liberal ideology will soon return to popularity.<\/p>\n

Here is a forceful statement by the liberal law professor and Obama administration regulator Elizabeth Warren, now running for Scott Brown\u2019s Senate seat in Massachusetts:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there \u2014 good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. .\u2009.\u2009. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea \u2014 God bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the \u2018social contract\u2019 \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>.\n

So does she have a point?\u00a0 How would you answer her?<\/p>\n

(By the way, she\u2019s from Oklahoma, and, as I recall, my brother Jimmy, sometimes commenter and contributor to this blog,\u00a0 knows her!)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to my other pessimistic predictions, I am thinking that liberal ideology will soon return to popularity. Here is a forceful statement by the liberal law professor and Obama administration regulator Elizabeth Warren, now running for Scott Brown\u2019s Senate seat in Massachusetts: \u201cThere is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,36],"tags":[744,1291],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-liberalism"],"yoast_head":"\nThe social contract<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In addition to my other pessimistic predictions, I am thinking that liberal ideology will soon return to popularity. 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