{"id":187700,"date":"2011-03-30T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/30\/i-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-to-cry\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:12:00","slug":"i-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-to-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/30\/i-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-to-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Know Whether to Laugh or to Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:379045\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashVars=\"\"><\/embed><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I give up!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Jon Stewart riffs on the fact that while every right wing ratf%$# out there can say that unions are causing deficits, it appears that no one at all gives a damn that GE effectively paid a <b>negative sixty percent income tax<\/b> in 2010, while cutting US jobs and shipping them overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was but one thing that the Obama administration could do:  Make GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt the chairman of a prestigious commission to explore how to create jobs in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I think that between a choice of laughing and crying, I will go with sleeping like a baby:  I will wake up every few hours screaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give up! Jon Stewart riffs on the fact that while every right wing ratf%$# out there can say that unions are causing deficits, it appears that no one at all gives a damn that GE effectively paid a negative sixty percent income tax in 2010, while cutting US jobs and shipping them overseas. Of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1002,1028,983,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-good-writing","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-taxes","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}