{"id":1789,"date":"2009-05-20T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2009-05-20T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:52:54","slug":"why-government-cant-run-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Why Government Can&#8217;t Run a Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great article by John Steele Gordon in this mornings Wall Street Journal titled <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124277530070436823.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why Government Can&#8217;t Run a Business.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"P5200028\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3548388829\/p5200028.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3268\/3548388829_b2ef39c08d_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" alt=\"P5200028\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gordon is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Empire-Wealth-History-American-Economic\/dp\/0060505125\/sr=1-1\/qid=1163425041\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-6138427-3586414?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Empire of Wealth<\/strong><\/em><\/a> an excellent book that explains how capitalism has worked\u00a0 for the United States.\u00a0 I used a Herbert Hoover quote from the book for the <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/weekly-maxim\/maxim-of-the-week-for-november-13\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Weekly Maxim in November 2006<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite quotes from this article is:\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Capitalism isn&#8217;t perfect. Indeed, to paraphrase Winston Churchill&#8217;s famous description of democracy, it&#8217;s the worst economic system except for all the others.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124277530070436823.html\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124277530070436823.html<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great article by John Steele Gordon in this mornings Wall Street Journal titled Why Government Can&#8217;t Run a Business. Gordon is the author of Empire of Wealth an excellent book that explains how capitalism has worked\u00a0 for the United States.\u00a0 I used a Herbert Hoover quote from the book for the Weekly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-sR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}