{"id":466921,"date":"2010-03-24T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33936"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:46:05","slug":"this-is-our-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466921","title":{"rendered":"This Is Our Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge<\/p>\n<p>Young Americans for Liberty member,<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/03\/24\/so-now-youre-mad-at-the-government\/2\/\"> Elliot Engstrom has an opinion piece on the Daily Caller<\/a> today and this paragraph is worth sharing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Big-government liberals won a big victory yesterday, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean that we can&rsquo;t fight back. However, if we are going to win that fight our political ammunition cannot be pragmatically-based double-speak attempting to push the government out of one part of our life while holding onto government intervention in other sectors. If we do not want our government running our lives for us and always doing what they think is &ldquo;best,&rdquo; then we need to figure out what place government should take, and keep them within these limits. Government cannot be confined to certain sectors and left out of others&mdash;for example, government control of health care involves government control of the insurance sector, which involves control of the financial sector, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elliot is correct. Remember, it&#8217;s Congressman Paul&#8217;s consistency on the issues that led many of us to respect him and join this movement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Republicans like <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/03\/more_trouble_for_the_repeal_ef.html\">Senator John Cornyn already wavering<\/a> on repealing all aspects of ObamaCare, we must stay consistent and determined throughout this battle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This fight is long from over and it is going to test our commitment to the principles of liberty, let&#8217;s not waver from the task at hand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge Young Americans for Liberty member, Elliot Engstrom has an opinion piece on the Daily Caller today and this paragraph is worth sharing.&nbsp; Big-government liberals won a big victory yesterday, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean that we can&rsquo;t fight back. However, if we are going to win that fight our political ammunition cannot be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}