{"id":71142,"date":"2019-04-23T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71142"},"modified":"2019-04-26T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:22:39","slug":"sell-at-a-loss-make-up-for-it-with-volume-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71142","title":{"rendered":"Sell At A Loss.  Make Up For It With Volume."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE:&nbsp; &nbsp;Mitch BERG is riding a Lime scooter through downtown Minneapolis when he sees Avery LIBRELLE haggling with a PANHANDLER.&nbsp; BERG pulls over &#8211; before getting that look on his face that says &#8220;I already regret this&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:&nbsp; Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; Hey, Avery.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:&nbsp; It&#8217;s time to give Medicare to everyone!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; &nbsp;Medicare even as it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/when-will-social-security-and-medicare-run-out-of-money-to-pay-all-obligations\/\">is going to be insolvent right about the time I might, hypothetically, maybe, retire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:&nbsp; &nbsp;The best way to save a program is to make sure everyone depends on it.&nbsp; Give it to everyone!&nbsp; (<em>To PANHANDLER<\/em>).&nbsp; Right?<\/p>\n<p>PANHANDLER:&nbsp; My car broke down, and my wife and daughter are in it, out on the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:&nbsp; Have you tried holding a press conference and demonstration at City Hall?<\/p>\n<p>PANHANDLER: No, ma&#8217;a&#8230;er, si&#8230;er&#8230; (<em>Looks wanly at BERG, who shrugs<\/em>).&nbsp; &nbsp;Er, not yet.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>BERG quietly presses the accelerator<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:&nbsp; &nbsp;Mitch BERG is riding a Lime scooter through downtown Minneapolis when he sees Avery LIBRELLE haggling with a PANHANDLER.&nbsp; BERG pulls over &#8211; before getting that look on his face that says &#8220;I already regret this&#8221; LIBRELLE:&nbsp; Merg! BERG:&nbsp; Hey, Avery. LIBRELLE:&nbsp; It&#8217;s time to give Medicare to everyone! BERG:&nbsp; &nbsp;Medicare even as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-71142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71168,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71142\/revisions\/71168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}