{"id":8104,"date":"2014-02-19T12:55:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T17:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8104"},"modified":"2014-02-19T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T17:55:45","slug":"stupid-stupid-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8104","title":{"rendered":"Stupid, stupid Republicans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as the repubs continue to gloat over defeating the union drive at the VW plant in Kentucky&#8230;this neat little tidbit came into the news this morning&#8230;the head of the union that represents workers at the plants in Germany said that there are now talks to possibly stop manufacturing in the US&#8230;and to certainly not expand production here&#8230;so, just to spite the unions here, the repubs have basically scared VW away from expansion and the prospect of thousands of new jobs is now gone&#8230;.these idiots really thought, in their delusional minds, that VW would thank them for killing unionization even when VW told them that they wanted a union in that plant and that they are more profitable and efficient when they have a union shop. And, VW also understands that when their workers are paid fairly, they have enough money to buy their products and the entire economy benefits, not just the 1%. That is one of the major reasons why Germany is still a manufacturing powerhouse&#8230;workers and management work together to face the realities of the economy and share in the pain and gain&#8230;not the economy that the repubs want here&#8230;that the 1% gets everything and the workers get crap&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as the repubs continue to gloat over defeating the union drive at the VW plant in Kentucky&#8230;this neat little tidbit came into the news this morning&#8230;the head of the union that represents workers at the plants in Germany said that there are now talks to possibly stop manufacturing in the US&#8230;and to certainly not expand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stupid, stupid Republicans&#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":[37,1026],"class_list":["post-8104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republicans","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104","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=8104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}