{"id":4590,"date":"2012-02-23T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2012-02-23T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:08:20","slug":"screw-the-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/screw-the-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw the workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/santorums-defensive-debate-night\/2012\/02\/22\/gIQARA1PUR_blog.html?wprss=rss_linkset#\">Santorum\u2019s defensive debate night &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And one thing was abundantly clear: The Republican candidates, particularly Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, thought it more important to punish unionized workers than to save the Detroit-based auto industry.<\/p>\n<p>Both sought to defend their opposition to the auto bailout by arguing that the United Auto Workers union was central to the industry\u2019s problems and that bankruptcy was the most desirable outcome because it would have undermined the union. \u201cThe UAW would have lost all their advantages,\u201d Gingrich said.<\/p>\n<p>Not a word was said about the sweeping concessions the unions made to save General Motors and Chrysler. And neither faced up to the economic chaos that letting the auto companies go down would have caused throughout the Midwest. No wonder President Obama is ahead by 20 points in Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/santorums-defensive-debate-night\/2012\/02\/22\/gIQARA1PUR_blog.html?wprss=rss_linkset#\">Santorum\u2019s defensive debate night &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santorum\u2019s defensive debate night &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post And one thing was abundantly clear: The Republican candidates, particularly Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, thought it more important to punish unionized workers than to save the Detroit-based auto industry. Both sought to defend their opposition to the auto bailout by arguing that the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/screw-the-workers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Screw the workers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}