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    "title": "If You Were *Un*successful, You Didn't Do That On Your Own",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-08-23 19:33:09 UTC",
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        "2012-08-23 19:33:09 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Look, if you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve been unsuccessful, you didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t get there on your own. If you were unsuccessful at opening or operating a small business, some government official along the line probably contributed to your failure.\u00c2\u00a0 There was an overzealous civil servant somewhere who might have stood in your way with unreasonable regulations that are part of our American system of anti-business red tape that allowed you to not thrive.\u00c2\u00a0 Taxpayers invested in roads and bridges, but you might have faced city council members who wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t allow you to use them.\u00c2\u00a0 If you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve been forced to close a business \u00e2\u0080\u0093 it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s often the case that you didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t do that on your own.\u00c2\u00a0 Somebody else made that business closing happen or prevented it from opening in the first place. You can thank the bureaucratic tyrants of the nanny state.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/08/great-moments-in-government-regulations.html\">CARPE DIEM: Great Moments in Government Regulation: How City Regulations Killed a Dream in Chattanooga</a></em>.</p>\n"
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