{"id":8908,"date":"2012-04-30T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2012-05-01T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:24:04","slug":"quote-of-the-day-416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-416\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5325\" title=\"Sheldon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Sheldon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>&#8220;The U.S. senators and representatives who refuse even to consider raising taxes on the rich\u2014they squall like scalded babies (usually on <strong>Fox News<\/strong>) every time the subject comes up\u2014are not, by and large, superrich themselves, although many are millionaires &#8230; They simply idolize the rich. Don\u2019t ask me why; I don\u2019t get it either, since most rich people are as boring as old, dead dog shit. The <strong>Mitch McConnell<\/strong>s and <strong>John Boehner<\/strong>s and <strong>Eric Cantor<\/strong>s just can\u2019t seem to help themselves. These guys and their right-wing supporters regard deep pockets like <strong>Christy Walton<\/strong> and <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> the way little girls regard <strong>Justin Bieber <\/strong>\u2026 which is to say, with wide eyes, slack jaws, and the drool of adoration dripping from their chins. I\u2019ve gotten the same reaction myself, even though I\u2019m only &#8216;baby rich&#8217; compared with some of these guys, who float serenely over the lives of the struggling middle class like blimps made of thousand-dollar bills.&#8221; &#8212; <em>author <\/em><strong><em>Stephen King<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/04\/30\/stephen-king-tax-me-for-f-s-sake.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&amp;cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&amp;utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet\" target=\"_blank\"><em>likening &#8220;Tex&#8221; Adelson to Justin Bieber<\/em><\/a><em>, in arguably his most horrific image to date<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The U.S. senators and representatives who refuse even to consider raising taxes on the rich\u2014they squall like scalded babies (usually on Fox News) every time the subject comes up\u2014are not, by and large, superrich themselves, although many are millionaires &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-416\/\">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":[12,31,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908"}],"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=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}