{"id":721,"date":"2015-04-20T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=721"},"modified":"2015-04-20T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:24:41","slug":"greece-orders-raid-on-government-coffers-as-cash-dwindles-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Greece orders raid on government coffers as cash dwindles &#8211; Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/economics\/11548973\/Talks-with-Greece-have-gained-momentum-but-still-long-way-from-target-IMF.html\"><img src='http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/GreekEuroFlags_3273918b.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/economics\/11548973\/Talks-with-Greece-have-gained-momentum-but-still-long-way-from-target-IMF.html\">Greece orders raid on government coffers as cash dwindles &#8211; Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As bad as this is for Greece, it is even worse for Progressive ideology. \u00a0Lady Margaret Thatcher had warned that sooner or later you run out of other people&#8217;s money. \u00a0It seems that Greece is the first one to reach that point.<\/p>\n<p>Will European or American Progressives learn anything from this? \u00a0Probably not. \u00a0Progressivism is a religion. \u00a0One that demands blind faith and a disavowal of evidence. \u00a0A religion of man, and in my opinion an atheistic one. \u00a0True, some s0-called Progressives may claim Christianity, but the truth is that they are going to have to choose one or the other. \u00a0Neither religion tolerates a sharing of loyalty or commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Even more, the two religions are diametrically opposed to each other. \u00a0Christianity\u00a0fundamentally supports the idea that\u00a0man should be free to chose his own eternal destiny. \u00a0Progressivism supports the imposition of the will of the majority for the &#8220;greater good.&#8221; \u00a0The former enhances personal liberty the latter destroys it. \u00a0One leads to freedom the other to oppression.<\/p>\n<p>True, Christians have been responsible for religious oppression and intolerance. \u00a0The very existence of my nation &#8211; America &#8211; is proof of that. \u00a0However, that is in violation of Christian tenants. \u00a0It&#8217;s not in support of its doctrine as it is in Progressivism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece orders raid on government coffers as cash dwindles &#8211; Telegraph. As bad as this is for Greece, it is even worse for Progressive ideology. \u00a0Lady Margaret Thatcher had warned that sooner or later you run out of other people&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[22,157,49,50,51,156,99,106,108],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","tag-tcot","tag-christianity","tag-culture-2","tag-culture-war","tag-current-events","tag-liberty","tag-political-correctness","tag-progressives","tag-religion-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-bD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}