{"id":76262,"date":"2012-06-20T16:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76262"},"modified":"2012-06-20T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T22:20:25","slug":"the-wisdom-of-marco-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76262","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Marco Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isteve.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/wisdom-of-marco-rubio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Sailer<\/a> always has that inconvenient fact or two handy.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Rubio:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many people who came here illegally are doing exactly what we would do if we lived in a country where we couldn&#8217;t feed our families,&#8221; he writes in An American Son, which was released Tuesday. &#8220;If my kids went to sleep hungry every night and my country didn&#8217;t give me an opportunity to feed them, there isn&#8217;t a law, no matter how restrictive, that would prevent me from coming here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm. Are people starving in Mexico?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the obesity by nation chart that Steve provides, taken from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, look, the U.S. is #1, and Mexico is #2. Well. I guess not.<\/p>\n<p>So what the fuck is Rubio on about? Or is this just Identity Politics infecting supposed conservative Republicans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer always has that inconvenient fact or two handy. Marco Rubio: &#8220;Many people who came here illegally are doing exactly what we would do if we lived in a country where we couldn&#8217;t feed our families,&#8221; he writes in An American Son, which was released Tuesday. &#8220;If my kids went to sleep hungry every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76302,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76262\/revisions\/76302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}