{"id":934,"date":"2009-08-30T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2009-08-30T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T07:16:08","slug":"losing-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Losing Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/513togwrr-l_sl500_aa240_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-935\" title=\"513togwrr-l_sl500_aa240_\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/513togwrr-l_sl500_aa240_.jpg\" alt=\"513togwrr-l_sl500_aa240_\" width=\"169\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1984 Charles Murray wrote the book <em>Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980<\/em> which was an analysis (replete with plenty of data) of federal meddling in social welfare. Although I was a bit reluctant to read this book at first (Luke&#8217;s choice in our book group), I found it thoroughly helpful in understanding the paradigm shift in this country&#8217;s social policy. We met to discuss the book early this morning and it proved to be a good discusion (despite Ben&#8217;s incessant appeals to panarchy).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/glock23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-936 alignleft\" title=\"glock23\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/glock23.jpg\" alt=\"glock23\" width=\"173\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a> Ben and I went shooting later in the morning at the Tucson Pistol Institute. I have been shooting my .40 Glock pretty exclusively lately, but one thing I like about TPI is that they have a vast array of firearms you can use for $6\/day (including semi-automatic assault rifles). They have a number of subcompact 9mms at a fairly reasonable price that I am contemplating for purchase. My Glock 23 is the compact model, but it&#8217;s still pretty bulky on the hip when concealed. The price of ammo has been making a steady reduction in price now which is quite helpful. It is nearly half the price for .40 S&amp;W as it was only a few months back (50 cents a round then versus 26 cents a round now). It was pretty difficult to go shooting when one clip cost $6.50 to fire under 60 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984 Charles Murray wrote the book Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 which was an analysis (replete with plenty of data) of federal meddling in social welfare. Although I was a bit reluctant to read this book at first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=934\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}