{"id":18626,"date":"2016-08-05T08:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18626"},"modified":"2016-08-05T08:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:57:59","slug":"quote-of-the-day-757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-757\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/carl_icahn.jpg\" alt=\"carl_icahn\" width=\"250\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/carl_icahn.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/carl_icahn-150x126.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>\u201cThis titan of <strong>Wall Street<\/strong> is utterly incapable of making a decision unless it is mean-spirited and benefiting him alone.\u00a0The great deal-maker would rather burn the <strong>Trump Taj Mahal<\/strong> down just so he can control the ashes. In the end he\u2019ll have to live with what he\u2019s done to working people in <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Unite-Here Local 54<\/strong> President <strong>Robert McDevitt<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/business\/casinos-gaming\/labor-strike-pushes-trump-taj-mahal-casino-shut-down\" target=\"_blank\">on his archnemesis<\/a>, <strong>Carl Icahn<\/strong>. The latter replied, &#8220;this is a business; it\u2019s not a charity. They look at this as my responsibility, and I\u2019m a bad guy if I don\u2019t give them what they want.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis titan of Wall Street is utterly incapable of making a decision unless it is mean-spirited and benefiting him alone.\u00a0The great deal-maker would rather burn the Trump Taj Mahal down just so he can control the ashes. In the end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-757\/\">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":[],"categories":[23,82,21,196],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18627,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions\/18627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}