{"id":193,"date":"2012-10-01T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2012-10-01T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:12:00","slug":"i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled\/2012\/09\/28\/756f2e90-07ee-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html\">I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism,  single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the obstacles  put in my way by employees, government and the media. <br \/>I am a job creator and I am entitled. <br \/>I am entitled to complain about the economy even when my stock price, my portfolio and my profits are at record levels.<br \/>I  am entitled to a healthy and well-educated workforce, a modern and  efficient transportation system and protection for my person and  property, just as I am entitled to demonize the government workers who  provide them. <br \/>I am entitled to complain bitterly about taxes that are always too high, even when they are at record lows. <br \/>I  am entitled to a judicial system that efficiently enforces contracts  and legal obligations on customers, suppliers and employees but does not  afford them the same right in return. <br \/>I am entitled to complain  about the poor quality of service provided by government agencies even  as I leave my own customers on hold for 35 minutes while repeatedly  telling them how important their call is.<br \/>I am entitled to a  compensation package that is above average for my company\u2019s size and  industry, reflecting the company\u2019s aspirations if not its performance.<br \/>I  am entitled to have the company pay for breakfasts and lunches, a  luxury car and private jet travel, my country club dues and home  security systems, box seats to all major sporting events, a pension  equal to my current salary and a full package of insurance \u2014 life,  health, dental, disability and long-term care \u2014 through retirement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>&nbsp;There&#8217;s lots more and it is all dead on!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled &#8211; The Washington Post I am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism, single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled &#8211; The Washington Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,19,52,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ayn-rand","category-contrarian-economics","category-right-wing-noise-machine","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}