{"id":129,"date":"2011-06-16T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:02:02","slug":"the-truth-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">Several friends have forwarded me this video from <a href=\"http:\/\/moveon.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MoveOn.org<\/a>.\u00a0 \n<p>Despite massive efforts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2011\/030611a.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">deny the fact<\/a> or change the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcoddath.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\/thinks.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">subject<\/a>, there is indeed a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2006\/6\/19\/paul_krugman_on_the_new_class\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> class war <\/a>going on in this country. And guess who is losing it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Take a look, only a few seconds more than two minutes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-4541700903255003253?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several friends have forwarded me this video from MoveOn.org.\u00a0 Despite massive efforts to deny the fact or change the subject, there is indeed a class war going on in this country. And guess who is losing it\u2026 Take a look, only a few seconds more than two minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Truth About the Economy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Several friends have forwarded me this video from MoveOn.org.&nbsp; Despite massive efforts to deny the fact or change the subject, there is indeed a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Truth About the Economy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several friends have forwarded me this video from MoveOn.org.&nbsp; Despite massive efforts to deny the fact or change the subject, there is indeed a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Monkey Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/james.ford.1029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-16T16:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-01T19:02:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-4541700903255003253?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html\",\"name\":\"The Truth About the Economy\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-16T16:15:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-11-01T19:02:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\"},\"description\":\"Several friends have forwarded me this video from MoveOn.org.&nbsp; Despite massive efforts to deny the fact or change the subject, there is indeed a\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/06\/the-truth-about-the-economy.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Truth About the Economy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/\",\"name\":\"Monkey Mind\",\"description\":\"Easily distracted...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\",\"name\":\"James Ford\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"James Ford\"},\"description\":\"James Ishmael Ford is a writer and spiritual director. 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