{"id":45,"date":"2005-09-30T14:53:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=45"},"modified":"2005-09-30T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T21:15:47","slug":"sincerity-is-better-than-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/sincerity-is-better-than-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sincerity is better than \r\n\r\nbullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d rather <\/p>\n

read 10 letters like this one from Jerry Wright or the earlier one by Sheila Harris<\/a>, both restauranteurs, than one by the ingrate Vern Raburn, CEO of <\/p>\n

Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/a>, or the xenophobic Pfeffer<\/a>. These are thoughtful <\/p>\n

and sincere and less about frightening people with nonsense<\/strong> about school invaders<\/a> and lost constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

I do not want to put Wright or Harris out of business; I don’t want them to have to fire anyone. Nevertheless, I’m willing to risk <\/p>\n

that on the chance that the cumulative effects will be better than the status quo. When did “conservative” come to mean “afraid”? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Living Wage Counterpoint<\/a><\/p>\n

A business is nothing but its bottom line, and if it shows a profit, we get <\/p>\n

to continue the game for another fiscal quarter. Behind each business are people. I am our business. My family is this business. Those <\/p>\n

who choose to work with me to accomplish our goals are our business. In my case, this means 60 employees get to take home a paycheck. <\/p>\n

Sixty souls can pay rent, pay a bill, buy some food. And if this law costs me more than I can bring in, then there are 60 families I have <\/p>\n

failed.<\/p>\n

This law picks on my industry: restaurants. … Jerry Wright
\n[full letter here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d rather read 10 letters like this one from Jerry Wright or the earlier one by Sheila Harris, both restauranteurs, than one by the ingrate Vern Raburn, CEO of Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or the xenophobic Pfeffer. These are thoughtful and sincere and less about frightening people with nonsense about school invaders and … Continue reading Sincerity is better than <\/p>\n

bullshit<\/span> →<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}