{"id":2210,"date":"2017-05-04T04:11:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/2017-5-4-you-know-general-welfare-html\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T02:44:30","slug":"2017-5-4-you-know-general-welfare-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/2017-5-4-you-know-general-welfare-html\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know, General Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/john-actually-is-dull.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/john-actually-is-dull.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A lovely centered picture of a poster\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFriends,<\/p>\n<p>The coalition of GOP sharps, weasels and dandies along with the dullards, chicken frighteners and snake charmers in the U.S. House of Representatives are poised to pass a replacement for the Affordable Care Act this morning. Well, not so much a replacement as a tax cut for the wealthy that&#8217;s paid for by pricing 20 million Americans out of their health insurance. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Campaign donations and fear of facing a primary challenger who lacks more spine and heart than the incumbent. By the way, lacking a spine and a heart would qualify as pre-existing conditions for these goons, punting them into expensive high-risk insurance pools&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or it would if Congress hadn&#8217;t exempted members from their new scheme that&#8217;s just fine for you. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>Your best pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, The coalition of GOP sharps, weasels and dandies along with the dullards, chicken frighteners and snake charmers in the U.S. House of Representatives are poised to pass a replacement for the Affordable Care Act this morning. Well, not so much a replacement as a tax cut for the wealthy that&#8217;s paid for by pricing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/2017-5-4-you-know-general-welfare-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Know, General Welfare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,37],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-this-dangerous-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}