{"id":1986,"date":"2006-05-30T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/stosseled\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T23:59:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T03:59:54","slug":"stosseled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/stosseled\/","title":{"rendered":"Stosseled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/david-sirota\/john-stossel-is-a-patholo_b_21903.html\">David Sirota<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stossel replied with a straight face: &#8220;The truth is that people on the margins lose jobs when minimum wages go up. We used to have people washing windshields at gas stations. We don&#8217;t anymore because of the minimum wage. There&#8217;s no opportunity for kids, for entry-level workers.&#8221;<br \/>\nMind you, Stossel is making this claim at the very same time President Bush is claiming we need a guest worker program because there are actually too many entry-level, low-wage jobs that aren&#8217;t being filled. But beyond that, the actual data exposes Stossel&#8217;s pathological lying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at the link, including how Stossel is wages a campaign against frivolous lawsuits by suing an interviewee for $200,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/stosseled\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Stosseled\"><p>David Sirota: Stossel replied with a straight face: &#8220;The truth is that people on the margins lose jobs when minimum wages go up. We used to have people washing windshields at gas stations. We don&#8217;t anymore because of the minimum wage. There&#8217;s no opportunity for kids, for entry-level workers.&#8221; Mind you, Stossel is making this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}