{"id":18538,"date":"2021-10-08T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T22:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18538"},"modified":"2021-10-08T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T22:17:39","slug":"firing-line-friday-proposals-for-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/10\/08\/firing-line-friday-proposals-for-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Proposals for Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It can seem that the Left in America has been perpetually winning all battles to some. The idea of a European <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Welfare state<\/a> where everyone gets free stuff would not politically fly in today\u2019s political environment, but half-a-century ago it was what America was seemingly heading towards and it was heavily debated over by William F. Buckley, Jr., Richard Skinner, Margaret Young, Jeffrey Stafford, and then Gov. Jimmy Carter (who was, relatively, a moderate in the Democratic Party).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W0St7-URbpQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Proposals for Welfare\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"It can seem that the Left in America has been perpetually winning all battles to some.  The idea of a European Welfare state where everyone gets free stuff would not politically fly in today\u2019s political environment, but half-a-century ago it was what America was seemingly heading towards and it was heavily debated over by William F. Buckley, Jr., Richard Skinner, Margaret Young, Jeffrey Stafford, and then Gov. Jimmy Carter (who was, relatively, a moderate in the Democratic Party).\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It can seem that the Left in America has been perpetually winning all battles to some. The idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/10\/08\/firing-line-friday-proposals-for-welfare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[19,95,24],"class_list":["post-18538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-communism","tag-firing-line-friday","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18539,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18538\/revisions\/18539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}