{"id":3198,"date":"2011-07-27T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2011-07-27T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:10:12","slug":"one-last-thing-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"One last thing for today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I don&#8217;t know what happened to my brain over the last couple of days but I have been able to work up some outrage and this one is just a jaw dropping example of the world as the repubs see it&#8230;.over the last year, 25 individual hedge fund managers made over 26 billion dollars in income&#8230;yep, that&#8217;s right folks, these thieves took an aver age of a billion dollars home each&#8230;with the top guy making 4.9 billion dollars&#8230;and since they bought themselves a law from the repubs back when ole GW was running the whole show, they only pay 15% tax on that money; never mind that the secretaries that work at these funds and the janitors that clean up after them pay 25% of their pay in taxes. This is the repubs idea of fairness? How many jobs did this 26 billion create? Not one&#8230;yep, not one&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Where are the jobs, Boehner? Where are the jobs, Cantor? Where are the jobs, Snyder? <\/p>\n<p>I do also want to take on the myth that the the low tax policies of gov Perry of Texas are the cause for job growth there&#8230;I have to laugh at that nonsense since almost all of the jobs are a result of the runup of oil prices and profits, so the rest of us are paying taxes in the form of higher prices that are subsidizing job growth in Texas&#8230;what are the repubs going to claim next as a result of their anti American agenda? That the oil in the ground in Texas is there because the repubs gave the rich more tax cuts? I think their crazy is starting to rot this country&#8230;geez&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I don&#8217;t know what happened to my brain over the last couple of days but I have been able to work up some outrage and this one is just a jaw dropping example of the world as the repubs see it&#8230;.over the last year, 25 individual hedge fund managers made over 26 billion dollars in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One last thing for today&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[504,149,505],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-taxes","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}