{"id":2396,"date":"2013-10-10T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T21:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2013-10-10T17:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T21:49:45","slug":"screw-rest-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;VE GOT MINE SO SCREW THE REST OF THE COUNTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the philosophy of Ted Cruz as well as the whole platoon of GOP unconscionables who are mugging the country.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2014not to fear\u2014Ted doesn\u2019t need Obamacare because his and his wife\u2019s Cadillac health insurance allows their employers a tax break!!<\/p>\n<p>Jim Hightower <a href=\"I\u2019VE GOT MINE AND SCREW THE REST OF THE COUNTRY  That\u2019s the philosophy of Ted Cruz as well as the whole platoon of unconscionables who are mugging the country\u2019s economy.   But\u2014not to fear\u2014Ted Cruz doesn\u2019t need Obamacare because his and his wife\u2019s Cadillac health insurance allows their employers a tax break!!  Jim Hightower reports on Buzzflash.com that Cruz   \u201cis covered by his wife's policy. As a millionaire top executive at Goldman Sachs, she and her family are given gold-plated Cadillac coverage by the Wall Street giant. Goldman pays some $40,000 a year for her and Ted's policy (more than most families make in a year) \u2014 a benefit-cost that the firm passes on to us taxpayers by deducting it from its corporate tax bill.\u201d   http:\/\/truth-out.org\/buzzflash\/commentary\/item\/18243-jim-hightower-gop-unhinged-by-obamacare-laugh-til-it-hurts\">reports <\/a>on Buzzflash.com that Cruz<\/p>\n<p>\u201cis covered by his wife&#8217;s policy. As a millionaire top executive at Goldman Sachs, she and her family are given gold-plated Cadillac coverage by the Wall Street giant. Goldman pays some $40,000 a year for her and Ted&#8217;s policy (more than most families make in a year) \u2014 a benefit-cost that the firm passes on to us taxpayers by deducting it from its corporate tax bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the philosophy of Ted Cruz as well as the whole platoon of GOP unconscionables who are mugging the country. But\u2014not to fear\u2014Ted doesn\u2019t need Obamacare because his and his wife\u2019s Cadillac health insurance allows their employers a tax break!! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}