{"id":8303,"date":"2011-03-30T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2011-03-30T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:00:13","slug":"tough-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8303","title":{"rendered":"Tough Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandsentinel.com\/opinions\/x13292164\/COLUMN-American-workers-got-what-they-deserved\">American workers got what they deserved<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To make matters worse, you\u2019re again being played for a chump. The same puppets who did nothing while your standard of living decreased are now using the oldest gimmick in the book \u2014 jealousy \u2014 to continue their assault on American workers. Rather than protect Americans\u2019 jobs, they deflect your attention through jealousy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCut the pay of government workers,\u201d they cry. \u201cIncrease their health premiums. Decrease their pensions. Break their unions. After all, you\u2019ve suffered so they should suffer too.\u201d And in your misery, you buy their argument while more jobs head oversees. Pretty stupid, eh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American workers got what they deserved To make matters worse, you\u2019re again being played for a chump. The same puppets who did nothing while your standard of living decreased are now using the oldest gimmick in the book \u2014 jealousy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}