{"id":8203,"date":"2026-10-02T21:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:49:33","slug":"free-stuff-dangerous-dependence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8203","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FREE STUFF&#8221; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; DANGEROUS DEPENDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FAITH<br>to<br>FREEDOM<br>to<br>CAPITALISM<br>to<br>WEALTH<br>to<br>&#8220;FREE STUFF&#8221; \/ SOCIALISM<br>to<br>BANKRUPTCY<br>to<br>TYRANNY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impossible political promises<br>Inevitable historical repetition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What we learn from history is that we don&#8217;t learn anything from history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITHtoFREEDOMtoCAPITALISMtoWEALTHto&#8220;FREE STUFF&#8221; \/ SOCIALISMtoBANKRUPTCYtoTYRANNY &#8211; Impossible political promisesInevitable historical repetition &#8211; &#8220;What we learn from history is that we don&#8217;t learn anything from history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}