{"id":335,"date":"2003-05-12T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2003-05-12T10:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=335"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:20","slug":"marie-antoinette-reincarnated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Marie Antoinette Reincarnated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a perfect example of clueless politicians and CEO&#8217;s, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/05\/12\/politics\/12LABO.html\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>New York Times<\/i> article<\/a> reports that workers in an Omaha factory will lose a day&#8217;s pay when the plant closes for a speech by President Bush, telling them how they&#8217;re going to be helped by tax cuts for their rich owners.  This doesn&#8217;t seem to bother either Dubya or the company CEO, Brad Crosby.  I guess Dubya&#8217;s head has been so swelled by the press ooohing and aahhing over his Top Gun shenanigans that he honestly believes any American would gladly sacrifice a day&#8217;s pay to bask in his presence.  And Mr. Crosby has probably attended so many expensive Republican fund-raisers that he thinks his employees are getting a bargain by sacrificing only a day&#8217;s pay. The article reports that 300 hourly employees are affected; considering the average gap between CEO&#8217;s and employees today, a day&#8217;s pay for 300 employees is probably less than a day&#8217;s pay for Mr. Crosby.  The article says that Mr. Crosby told Associated Press that he had not spoken to any employees who were unhappy.  Very clever wording .. he didn&#8217;t say there were no unhappy employees, he just hasn&#8217;t spoken to them. And if they don&#8217;t like it, they can eat cake.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a perfect example of clueless politicians and CEO&#8217;s, a New York Times article reports that workers in an Omaha factory will lose a day&#8217;s pay when the plant closes for a speech by President Bush, telling them how they&#8217;re going to be helped by tax cuts for their rich owners. This doesn&#8217;t seem to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=335\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marie Antoinette Reincarnated?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-5p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}