{"id":1438,"date":"2008-12-13T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2008-12-13T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T16:30:06","slug":"on-the-auto-bailout-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/12\/13\/on-the-auto-bailout-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Auto Bailout Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had mixed feelings on the auto bailout. We have to stop bailing everyone out after years of ineptitude. (Why has American auto failed to give us a hybrid that isn&#8217;t a gas-guzzling SUV?) And as far as Democrats go, I&#8217;m not terribly pro-union: they started to help get employees some basic rights, but I think they sometimes go too far.<\/p>\n<p>There were lots of reasons not to bail out the industry. And the CEOs with their corporate jets and lack of a plan didn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>But refusing to agree to the bailout because American employees make too much money? That&#8217;s a new one. And the claim that they make an average of $75 an hour? Have you ever seen Detroit? I&#8217;m not sure anyone there makes $150,000 a year. I am pretty sure, though, that there are a lot of people who don&#8217;t make $15,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>But at the end of the day, I&#8217;ve got my trusty Toyota. I just feel bad that Detroit is going from bad to worse, and that Congress has officially decreed that it doesn&#8217;t care.   <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had mixed feelings on the auto bailout. We have to stop bailing everyone out after years of ineptitude. (Why has American auto failed to give us a hybrid that isn&#8217;t a gas-guzzling SUV?) And as far as Democrats go, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/12\/13\/on-the-auto-bailout-failure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}