{"id":3758,"date":"2010-06-08T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2010-06-08T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:52:08","slug":"quote-of-the-day-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-189\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no question &#8230; that [the <strong>Obama<\/strong> administration has] basically focused too much on making things good for <strong>Wall Street<\/strong> and ignored Main Street, and now we&#8217;re paying the price for that. This is a structural problem.  This is not a cyclical problem, as <strong>Larry Summers<\/strong> has been claiming it is.  It has been the loss of manufacturing jobs for over 30 years now.  We need to throw everything at the problem, including a payroll tax holiday, including creating jobs the way we did during the Depression. Because what is happening is really the assault on the middle class.&#8221; &#8212; <em>biographer and pundit-at-large <strong>Arianna Huffington<\/strong>, indirectly diagnosing one of the primary ailments afflicting Las Vegas (mainly) and other gambling jurisdictions &#8230; a shriveling of bargain- and middle-market spending. From <strong>ABC-TV<\/strong>&#8216;s<\/em> This Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no question &#8230; that [the Obama administration has] basically focused too much on making things good for Wall Street and ignored Main Street, and now we&#8217;re paying the price for that. This is a structural problem. This is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-189\/\">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":[28,14,17,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758"}],"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=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}