{"id":3847,"date":"2010-10-11T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2010-10-11T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:36:22","slug":"limited-government-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/10\/11\/limited-government-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Limerick To The Anti-Government Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the <a href=\"http:\/\/brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/keep-government-away-from-my-medicare.html\">&#8220;keep the government away from my Medicare&#8221;<\/a> crowd is even larger and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/09\/AR2010100903308.html\">more confused<\/a> than we thought: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new study by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University shows that most Americans who say they want more limited government also call Social Security and Medicare &#8220;very important.&#8221; They want Washington to be involved in schools and to help reduce poverty. Nearly half want the government to maintain a role in regulating health care.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That brings me to my latest two-verse limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Open Limerick To The Anti-Government Crowd<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>You folks who cry out for less gov<br \/>\nHave lots of gov programs you love:<br \/>\nYou think Medicare&#8217;s great<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;d surely berate<br \/>\nAny pol who gave SS a shove.<\/p>\n<p>You hate taxes for highways and schools,<br \/>\nBut you don&#8217;t want your kids taught by fools.<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;re quick to unload<br \/>\nWhen your bridges corrode.<br \/>\nPlease wake up &#8212; don&#8217;t be Tea Party tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the &#8220;keep the government away from my Medicare&#8221; crowd is even larger and more confused than we thought: A new study by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University shows that most Americans who say they want more limited government also call Social Security and Medicare &#8220;very important.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,1186,154,6,7,3,9,1119,69],"tags":[890,2874,1298,876,1417,1418,1419,1420,1177,1322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}