{"id":930,"date":"2008-01-26T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=930"},"modified":"2008-01-26T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T14:41:55","slug":"financial-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Financial Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just about flipped my lid the other day when I heard Orrin Hatch describe Mitt Romney as a &#8220;financial genius&#8221;.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve <em>got<\/em> to be kidding.<br \/>\nCapping his performance as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/new_hampshire\/articles\/2006\/12\/25\/report_romney_out_of_state_212_days_so_far_in_2006\/\" target=\"_blank\">absentee governor<\/a>, Mitt left the state with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2006\/12\/30\/state_could_face_1b_deficit_in_07\/\" target=\"_blank\">billion dollar deficit<\/a>, and his much-touted Commonwealth Care plan is running deeply <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/archives\/2008\/01\/fiscal_irrespon.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the red<\/a>.<br \/>\nFurther, Mitt made his business reputation as the founder of Bain Capital, a venture company that built up its treasury through the enthusiastic exercise of blunt instruments like lay-offs and offshore tax havens.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Mitt gets away with making campaign speeches about protecting middle-class and blue collar jobs without getting struck by lightning.<br \/>\nA testament to the power of a really good haircut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just about flipped my lid the other day when I heard Orrin Hatch describe Mitt Romney as a &#8220;financial genius&#8221;. You&#8217;ve got to be kidding. Capping his performance as an absentee governor, Mitt left the state with a billion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=930\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}