{"id":4962,"date":"2011-10-29T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2011-10-29T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T15:44:13","slug":"elizabeth-warren-class-warfare-video-mediaite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/29\/elizabeth-warren-class-warfare-video-mediaite\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Class Warfare Video &#124; Mediaite"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While right-of-center critics might be quick to dismiss her anti-deficit rhetoric as more \u201cblame Bush,\u201d it\u2019s Warren\u2019s comments on the so-called \u201cclass warfare\u201d that are resonating the most among progressives (transcript below via TheBlaze):<br \/>\n\u201cI hear all this, you know, \u2018Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own \u2014 nobody.<br \/>\n\u201cYou built a factory out there? 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. You didn\u2019t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory \u2014 and hire someone to protect against this \u2014 because of the work the rest of us did.<br \/>\n\u201cNow look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless \u2014 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<br \/>\n\u201cSocial contract\u201d is a phrase that should resonate across the the political spectrum, as it takes the onus of constructive behavior on the individual and away from the perceived \u201cvictimization\u201d angle that riles the conservatives so much.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/video-of-elizabeth-warrens-passionate-rebuttal-of-class-warfare-goes-viral\/\">Elizabeth Warren Class Warfare Video | Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>this one is inspired by vince the tapa prince! thanks for the pizza!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While right-of-center critics might be quick to dismiss her anti-deficit rhetoric as more \u201cblame Bush,\u201d it\u2019s Warren\u2019s comments on the so-called \u201cclass warfare\u201d that are resonating the most among progressives (transcript below via TheBlaze): \u201cI hear all this, you know, \u2018Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/29\/elizabeth-warren-class-warfare-video-mediaite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elizabeth Warren Class Warfare Video &#124; Mediaite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}