{"id":1495,"date":"2012-10-10T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2012-10-10T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T15:22:19","slug":"a-manifesto-for-the-entitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/a-manifesto-for-the-entitled\/","title":{"rendered":"A manifesto for the entitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled\/2012\/09\/28\/756f2e90-07ee-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled\/2012\/09\/28\/756f2e90-07ee-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really encourage my reader(s) to look at the whole thing.  I excerpted a few that I like the most&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism, single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the obstacles put in my way by employees, government and the media.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI am entitled to complain about the economy even when my stock price, my portfolio and my profits are at record levels.<\/p>\n<p>I am entitled to a healthy and well-educated workforce, a modern and efficient transportation system and protection for my person and property, just as I am entitled to demonize the government workers who provide them.<\/p>\n<p>I am entitled to complain bitterly about taxes that are always too high, even when they are at record lows.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI am entitled to use unlimited amounts of my own or company funds to buy elections without disclosing such expenditures to shareholders or the public.<\/p>\n<p>I am entitled to use company funds to burnish my own charitable reputation.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAlthough I have no clue how government works, I am entitled to be consulted on public policy by politicians and bureaucrats who have no clue about how business works.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI am entitled to load companies up with debt in order to pay myself and investors big dividends \u2014 and then blame any bankruptcy on over-compensated workers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI am entitled to claim credit for all the profits made during a booming economy while blaming losses or setbacks on adverse market or economic conditions.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI am entitled to be treated with deference and respect by investors I mislead, customers I bamboozle, directors I manipulate and employees I view as expendable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled\/2012\/09\/28\/756f2e90-07ee-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html I really encourage my reader(s) to look at the whole thing. I excerpted a few that I like the most&#8230; I am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism, single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the obstacles put in my way by employees, government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/a-manifesto-for-the-entitled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A manifesto for the entitled&#8221;<\/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":[14,19,16,3,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}