{"id":2304,"date":"2006-11-30T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2006\/11\/30\/cheap-in-america-2\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T23:32:00","slug":"cheap-in-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/cheap-in-america-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone catch Wednesday night\u2019s 20\/20 report \u201cCheap in America\u201d? It was by John Stossel on charitable giving. I learned some interesting observations:<br \/>1-Conservatives give more than Liberals<br \/>2-Religious people give 4 times more than non-Religious (even to non religious charities)<br \/>3-The US Government ranks lower than many other governments in aid, yet our citizens\u2019 personal giving is much higher than citizens from other countries.Links to the stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=2682730&#038;page=1\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=2682730&amp;page=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=2674158\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=2674158<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/6269\/986\/320\/764983\/sa.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone catch Wednesday night\u2019s 20\/20 report \u201cCheap in America\u201d? It was by John Stossel on charitable giving. I learned some interesting observations:1-Conservatives give more than Liberals2-Religious people give 4 times more than non-Religious (even to non religious charities)3-The US Government ranks lower than many other governments in aid, yet our citizens\u2019 personal giving is [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}