{"id":1838,"date":"2005-01-11T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2018-07-28T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T19:04:20","slug":"1838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/1838\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noggle Edit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another ad in the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> from yesterday, with my markup in red for your approval:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>Social Security<\/h2>\n<h3><i>If we feel like gambling,<br \/>\n<\/i>WE&#8217;LL PLAY THE SLOTS<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><i>AND WE CAN, BECAUSE WE HAVE<br \/> <br \/>\nTHIS FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY WE CAN PISS AWAY<\/i><\/font>.<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">Let&#8217;s not turn Social Security into Social Insecurity.  While the program needs to be <strike>strengthened<\/strike> <font color=\"red\" size=\"2\"><i>eradicated<\/i><\/font>, private accounts that take money out of Social Security are not the answer <font color=\"red\" size=\"2\"><i>on Jeopardy! since you have to answer with a question<\/i><\/font> and will hurt <strike>all<\/strike> <font color=\"red\" size=\"2\"><i>our<\/i><\/font> generation<strike>s<\/strike><font color=\"red\" size=\"2\"><i>, the only one with any real hope of dying while Social Security is solvent<\/i><\/font>. There are places in your retirement planning for risk, but Social Security isn&#8217;t one of them<font color=\"red\" size=\"2\"><i>, and you can take our word for it since we&#8217;re wise enough to rely on continued government largesse and taxpayer benevolence for our retirement instead of, you know, <i>intelligence<\/i> of any sort<\/i><\/font>.  Call your legislators at <b>1-800-307-8525<\/b> and urge them to oppose <strike>private accounts that put<\/strike> Social Security <strike>at risk<\/strike>.<\/p>\n<p>AARP The power to make <strike>it better<\/strike> <font color=\"red\" size=\"2\"><i>ourselves richer at the expense of those damn kids, many of whom are in their thirties by now<\/i><\/font>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I would tell you what I think about the AARP, but the language might get me banned by some filters, and I wouldn&#8217;t even know about it to cash in on the persecutional publicity.  Let me say that I respect my elders and I respect any other human <i>until such time as he, she, or it tries to violate me, my family, or my property<\/i>.  Which is really what the AARP wants, my earnings to fund its members&#8217; continuing and unplanned for existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from yesterday, with my markup in red for your approval: Social Security If we feel like gambling, WE&#8217;LL PLAY THE SLOTS AND WE CAN, BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY WE CAN PISS AWAY. Let&#8217;s not turn Social Security into Social Insecurity. While the program needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20709,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/20709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}