{"id":32660,"date":"2023-07-25T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2023-07-25T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:41:54","slug":"you-are-forgiven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32660","title":{"rendered":"You Are Objectively Forgiven"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewsolender\/2020\/07\/06\/vocal-opponents-of-federal-spending-took-ppp-loans-including-ayn-rand-institute-grover-norquist-group\/\">The Ayn Rand Institute<\/a>, named for conservative philosopher Ayn Rand, received a [COVID relief] loan of between $350,000 and $1 million, which it called \u201cpartial restitution for government-inflicted losses.\"<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a terrible injustice for pro-capitalists to step aside and leave the funds to those indifferent or actively hostile to capitalism  ,\u201d Ayn Rand Institute board member Harry Binswanger argued in May, stating that the organization would \u201ctake any relief money offered us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"\nhttps:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/coronavirus\/bailouts\/loans\/the-ayn-rand-institute-the-center-for-the-advancement-of-ob-5304757303\">Loan Amount<\/a><br \/>\n$713,100<\/p>\n<p>Amount Forgiven<br \/>\n$721,697<br \/>\n<em>Includes any accrued interest<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A creepy anti-government shmibertarian jerk tank got $713K in free money. Talk about horrible injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ayn Rand Institute, named for conservative philosopher Ayn Rand, received a [COVID relief] loan of between $350,000 and $1 million, which it called \u201cpartial restitution for government-inflicted losses.\" \u201cIt would be a terrible injustice for pro-capitalists to step aside and leave the funds to those indifferent or actively hostile to capitalism ,\u201d Ayn Rand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32665,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions\/32665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}