{"id":39617,"date":"2011-05-29T13:35:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/39617\/rains-came\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:35:18","slug":"rains-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/39617\/rains-came\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Rains came."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> What is the Purpose and role of Government?<\/p>\n<p>Standard of living is often based on Wages, Retirement\/pension, and Health Care.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of Joseph in Egypt. Joseph tells Pharoah that there will be 7 prosperous years followed by 7 years of Famine. So Pharoah (the Government) gathered up the surplus (a tax) and stored the grain, and during the time of Famine Egypt was the Only country with food, and the People (working men and women) were fed (by their government).<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/biography\/Joseph.html<\/p>\n<p>Alternative Teabagger ending: And the Pharoah said to Joseph, but shouldn&#8217;t the Weak starve? The Goddess Ayn Rand said that only the strong will rise through capitalism. If we feed the Weak during times of Famine will they not stop working and expect us to feed them. And it came to pass that the people of Egypt starrved. The rains came again. And Pharoah asks Joseph why his fields lay fallow. Is there not men who have the skills to bring great harvest. And Joseph tells the Pharoah that many of the population Starved and all that can work the fields are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Purpose and role of Government? Standard of living is often based on Wages, Retirement\/pension, and Health Care. I am reminded of Joseph in Egypt. Joseph tells Pharoah that there will be 7 prosperous years followed by 7 years of Famine. So Pharoah (the Government) gathered up the surplus (a tax) and stored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}