{"id":13776,"date":"2013-04-27T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2013-04-27T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:12:28","slug":"weekend-freedom-questionbest-way-to-avoid-financing-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/27\/weekend-freedom-questionbest-way-to-avoid-financing-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend freedom question:Best way to avoid financing evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the U.S. government is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/28\/world\/middleeast\/islamist-rebels-gains-in-syria-create-dilemma-for-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">making noise about going to war<\/a> (oh sorry, &#8220;intervening for humanitarian reasons&#8221;) in a Mideast country on sketchy evidence. <\/p>\n<p>If gov-o-crats decide to side with Islamist rebels in Syria, the choice could cost us all &#8212; in more ways than one. Some of the costs are unforeseeable. One is obvious: The U.S. is going broke and will go broke faster.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the U.S. is going broke no matter what, and We the People &#8212; or They Our Grandchildren &#8212; are going to pay. And pay. And pay.<\/p>\n<p>So this seems a good time to ask: <b>In your book, what is the best way to avoid spending <i>your<\/i> money and <i>your<\/i> effort to finance government actions you consider, at best, morally indefensible and, at worst, downright evil and catastrophic?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the U.S. government is making noise about going to war (oh sorry, &#8220;intervening for humanitarian reasons&#8221;) in a Mideast country on sketchy evidence. If gov-o-crats decide to side with Islamist rebels in Syria, the choice could cost us all &#8212; in more ways than one. Some of the costs are unforeseeable. One is obvious: The U.S. is going broke and will go broke faster. Well, the U.S. is going broke no matter what, and We the People &#8212; or They Our Grandchildren &#8212; are going to pay. And pay. And pay. So this seems a good time to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/27\/weekend-freedom-questionbest-way-to-avoid-financing-evil\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend freedom question:Best way to avoid financing evil<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}