{"id":2670,"date":"2010-01-15T20:06:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2010-01-15T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:10:35","slug":"word-of-the-day-favoritism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2670","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day: Favoritism."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Word%20Of%20The%20Day%3A%20Favoritism.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Question: &#8220;Hey Democrats, why don&#8217;t I get a special tax break to buy me off on approving the useless health care bill?&#8221;. Answer:  &#8220;You&#8217;re not in a union you idiot!&#8221;. Yep, the Democrats\u00a0 cut the unions and government workers <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704281204575003040695279432.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop\">a sweetheart deal<\/a> to get them on board the Health Care Reform train &#8211; Tax breaks for the Unions! At least for the next eight years. What about the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>Best snarkiness, from the Economist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/lexington\/2010\/01\/join_union_pay_less_tax\">IT IS as if George Bush had said: &#8220;Join the National Rifle Association\u00a0and\u00a0we&#8217;ll cut your income taxes.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Word%20Of%20The%20Day%3A%20Favoritism.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Question: &#8220;Hey Democrats, why don&#8217;t I get a special tax break to buy me off on approving the useless health care bill?&#8221;. Answer: &#8220;You&#8217;re not in a union you idiot!&#8221;. Yep, the Democrats\u00a0 cut the unions and government workers a sweetheart deal to get them on board the Health Care Reform train &#8211; Tax breaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}