{"id":9701,"date":"2010-03-29T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2010-03-28T09:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:40:48","slug":"democrats-dont-like-what-their-bill-is-doing-in-the-real-world-so-they-now-want-to-intimidate-ceos-into-keeping-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9701","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Democrats don&#8217;t like what their bill is doing in the real world, so they now want to intimidate CEOs into keeping quiet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First the Obama administration blasts Wall Street for not following the rules&#8230;and also when they <em>do<\/em>. AT&amp;T discharges it&#8217;s duty to shareholders by quantifying the hit they will be taking as a result of Obamacare.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704100604575146002445136066.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read\">This wholesale destruction of wealth and capital<\/a> came with more than  ample warning. Turning over every couch cushion to make their new  entitlement look affordable under Beltway accounting rules, Democrats  decided to raise taxes on companies that do the public service of  offering prescription drug benefits to their retirees instead of dumping  them into Medicare. We and others warned this would lead to  AT&amp;T-like results, but like so many other ObamaCare objections  Democrats waved them off as self-serving or &#8220;political.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;when in fact what they are is simple math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First the Obama administration blasts Wall Street for not following the rules&#8230;and also when they do. AT&amp;T discharges it&#8217;s duty to shareholders by quantifying the hit they will be taking as a result of Obamacare. This wholesale destruction of wealth and capital came with more than ample warning. Turning over every couch cushion to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,66,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-health-care","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9716,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}